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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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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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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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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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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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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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[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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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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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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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
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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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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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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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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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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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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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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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