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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
Maria Edgeworth
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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
Essayist
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Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
Irish
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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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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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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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Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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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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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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Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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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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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
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What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.
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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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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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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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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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.
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