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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.

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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Exertion
Virtue
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Contentment
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Vice
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Vices
Content
Connected
Indolence

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