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Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey?
Maria Edgeworth
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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
Essayist
Novelist
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Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
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Whiskey
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Artisans
Militia
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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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First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.
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Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.
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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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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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Justice satisfies everybody.
Maria Edgeworth
Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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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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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
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It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.
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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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When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.
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If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
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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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Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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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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