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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.

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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
Aversion
Pleasure
Business

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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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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
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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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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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First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.
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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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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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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 may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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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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Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.
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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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Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
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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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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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