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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.
Maria Edgeworth
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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
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Eliza Edgeworth
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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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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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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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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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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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It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.
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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
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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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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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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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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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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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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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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.
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Justice satisfies everybody.
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