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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
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Vanity
Loves
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Beauty
Heaven
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Wish
Beloved

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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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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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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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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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There are two sorts of content one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue the other, a vice.
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Justice satisfies everybody.
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When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.
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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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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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I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
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[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.
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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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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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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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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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