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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.

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
Means
Power
Mean
Make
Men
Obtain
Law

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[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.
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According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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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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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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How success changes the opinion of men!
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Justice satisfies everybody.
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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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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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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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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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