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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
Essayist
Novelist
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Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
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Opinion
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Opinions

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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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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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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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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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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.
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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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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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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
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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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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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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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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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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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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.
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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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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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