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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.
Maria Edgeworth
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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
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Eliza Edgeworth
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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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If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
Maria Edgeworth
A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.
Maria Edgeworth
Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
Maria Edgeworth
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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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?
Maria Edgeworth
We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.
Maria Edgeworth
A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
Maria Edgeworth
why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
Maria Edgeworth
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
How success changes the opinion of men!
Maria Edgeworth
Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
Maria Edgeworth
Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.
Maria Edgeworth
[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.
Maria Edgeworth
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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It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.
Maria Edgeworth
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.
Maria Edgeworth
No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
Maria Edgeworth
... 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.
Maria Edgeworth
What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.
Maria Edgeworth