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Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.

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
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Teach
Falsehoods
Politeness
Pain
Falsehood
Tell
Unnecessary
Others
Teaches
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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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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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I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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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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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
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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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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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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 is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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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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In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.
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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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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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Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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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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