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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
People
Scrape
Celebrated
Trash
Publish
Fame
Friends
Together

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According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.
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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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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.
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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.
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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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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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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be 'soonmoved withtheslightesttouch of blame' very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them all the maxims, of self-justification.
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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.
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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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