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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
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Eliza Edgeworth
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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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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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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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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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A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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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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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
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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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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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Justice satisfies everybody.
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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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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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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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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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I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.
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