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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
Writer
Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
Beauties
Wits
Wit
Curious
Always

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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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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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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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I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.
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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
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Justice satisfies everybody.
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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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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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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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Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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