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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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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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Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
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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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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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Justice satisfies everybody.
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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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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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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 is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
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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 impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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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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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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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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How success changes the opinion of men!
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Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.
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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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