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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
Novelist
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Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
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Men

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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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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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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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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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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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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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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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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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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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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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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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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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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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