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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
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Make
Men
Obtain
Law
Means
Power

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Justice satisfies everybody.
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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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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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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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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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There are two sorts of content one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue the other, a vice.
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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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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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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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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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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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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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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?
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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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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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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
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