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Maria Edgeworth Inspirational Quotes (49)

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Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.
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Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey?
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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be 'soonmoved withtheslightesttouch of blame' very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them all the maxims, of self-justification.
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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
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a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
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Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.
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A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.
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There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.
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If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
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Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.
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In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.
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A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
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Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
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What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.
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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.
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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
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