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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
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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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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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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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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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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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a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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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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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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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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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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We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.
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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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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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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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