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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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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
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Equally
True
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Two
Straight
Mathematics
Morality
Axiom
Line
Axioms
Lines
Shortest
Possible
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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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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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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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Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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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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