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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
Great
Vanity
Loves
Gift
Female
Beauty
Heaven
Purpose
Wishes
Wish
Beloved

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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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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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Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
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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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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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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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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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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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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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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
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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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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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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 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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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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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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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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Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
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