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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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Falsehoods
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Others
Unnecessary
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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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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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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
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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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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.
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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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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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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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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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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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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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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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Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
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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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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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