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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
Died
Lived
Patrick
Hospitality
Monument
Irish

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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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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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