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Confidence is the best proof of love.

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
Love
Proof
Confidence
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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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When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.
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There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
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Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
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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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I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
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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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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 impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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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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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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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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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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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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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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