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A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.

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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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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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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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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