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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
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
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Fact
Facts
Tell
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Person
Orators
Plain
Worse

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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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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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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
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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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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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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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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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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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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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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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A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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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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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 unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
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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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Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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