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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
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Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
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Confidence
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Love
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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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Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
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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 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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Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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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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I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
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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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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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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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Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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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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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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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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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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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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