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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.

Maria Edgeworth

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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
Darkness
Misfortunes
Break
Barriers
Knowledge
Visible
Upon
Prison
Irremediable
Show
Structure
Wretchedness
Shows
Seek
Gothic
Light
Limits
Misfortune
Make
Prove
Rays

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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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Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
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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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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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A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
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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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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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I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
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... 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.
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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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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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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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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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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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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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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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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.
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