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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
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Eliza Edgeworth
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More quotes by Maria Edgeworth
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.
Maria Edgeworth
Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
Maria Edgeworth
The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
Maria Edgeworth
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.
Maria Edgeworth
Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
Maria Edgeworth
Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.
Maria Edgeworth
I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
Maria Edgeworth
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.
Maria Edgeworth
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
Maria Edgeworth
How success changes the opinion of men!
Maria Edgeworth
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
Maria Edgeworth
Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
Maria Edgeworth
No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
Maria Edgeworth
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.
Maria Edgeworth
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Maria Edgeworth
Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
Maria Edgeworth
... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.
Maria Edgeworth
why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
Maria Edgeworth
How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
Maria Edgeworth
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
Maria Edgeworth
