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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
Writer
Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
Ought
Giving
Good
Never
Cursed
Flattery
Receiving
Twice

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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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A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
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Justice satisfies everybody.
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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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What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.
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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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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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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
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I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.
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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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Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
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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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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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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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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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... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.
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