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Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
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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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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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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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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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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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I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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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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When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.
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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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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.
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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.
Maria Edgeworth
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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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
Maria Edgeworth
