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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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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
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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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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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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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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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How success changes the opinion of men!
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Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.
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Justice satisfies everybody.
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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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I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
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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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Beauty is a great gift of heaven not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.
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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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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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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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