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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

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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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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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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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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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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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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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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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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.
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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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... 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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How success changes the opinion of men!
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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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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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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.
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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.
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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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