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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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Straight
Mathematics
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Line
Axioms
Lines
Shortest
Possible
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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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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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