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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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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Beauties
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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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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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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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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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Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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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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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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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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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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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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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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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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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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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
Maria Edgeworth
Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
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