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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
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Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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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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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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[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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Justice satisfies everybody.
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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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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
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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.
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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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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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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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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.
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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
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In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.
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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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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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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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