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How success changes the opinion of men!

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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
Changes
Opinion
Success
Men

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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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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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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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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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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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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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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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Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
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Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.
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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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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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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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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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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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