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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
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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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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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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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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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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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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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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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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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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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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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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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Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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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.
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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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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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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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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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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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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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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
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