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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.

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
Pleasure
Business
Aversion

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It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.
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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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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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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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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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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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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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Justice satisfies everybody.
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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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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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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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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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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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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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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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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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