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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
Always
Beauties
Wits
Wit
Curious

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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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Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
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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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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.
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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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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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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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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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A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
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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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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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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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First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.
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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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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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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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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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