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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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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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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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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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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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Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
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... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.
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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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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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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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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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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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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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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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I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
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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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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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