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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
Aversion
Pleasure
Business

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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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Justice satisfies everybody.
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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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A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford 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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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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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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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey?
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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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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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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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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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Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.
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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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How success changes the opinion of men!
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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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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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Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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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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