This was a lucky recollection ...

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.
This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

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Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.
 Richard Watson Gilder
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
 Philip Levine
I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
 Sophia Loren
When I got my first check I was thinking my mother and father didn't make this probably in their lifetime. It's real amazing that some of us are just blessed.
 Dwyane Wade

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.
But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]