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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.

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
Loves
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Female
Beauty
Heaven
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Wishes
Wish
Beloved
Great
Vanity

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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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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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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
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... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.
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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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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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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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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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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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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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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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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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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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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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