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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

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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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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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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When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.
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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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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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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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Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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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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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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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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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.
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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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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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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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Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
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