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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.
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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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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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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Beauty is a great gift of heaven not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.
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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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Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
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every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused they must bear it and their friends must learn to bear it for them.
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It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.
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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 are two sorts of content one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue the other, a vice.
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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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We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.
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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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