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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
Law
Means
Power
Mean
Make
Men
Obtain

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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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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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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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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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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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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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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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Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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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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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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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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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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It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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