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there is no reasoning with imagination.

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
Reasoning
Imagination

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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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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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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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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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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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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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It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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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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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.
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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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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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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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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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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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I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
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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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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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