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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
Essayist
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Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
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Laughed
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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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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.
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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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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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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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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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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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Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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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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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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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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[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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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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Justice satisfies everybody.
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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
Maria Edgeworth
Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
Maria Edgeworth
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Maria Edgeworth
