Joanna Baillie — Scottish Poet born on December 29, 1762,

Joanna Baillie was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, she hosted a literary society in her cottage at Hampstead. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last... (wikipedia)

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!
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