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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

Maria Edgeworth

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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
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Moments
May
Best
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Present
Future
Moment

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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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... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.
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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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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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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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According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.
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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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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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Justice satisfies everybody.
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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
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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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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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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
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