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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
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Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
Aversion
Pleasure
Business
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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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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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Beauty is a great gift of heaven not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.
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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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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 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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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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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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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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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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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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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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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 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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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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Justice satisfies everybody.
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