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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
Maria Edgeworth
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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
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Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
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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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According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.
Maria Edgeworth
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
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.
Maria Edgeworth
Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
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A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
Maria Edgeworth
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
Maria Edgeworth
Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
Maria Edgeworth
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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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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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
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
Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
Maria Edgeworth
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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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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Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
Maria Edgeworth
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.
Maria Edgeworth
how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
Maria Edgeworth
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.
Maria Edgeworth