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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Maria Edgeworth
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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
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Eliza Edgeworth
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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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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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Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
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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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We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.
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