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I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

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
Sooner
Procrastinators
Arts
Procrastinator
Later
Invisibility
Art
Evasion
Must
Practiced
Procrastination
Reduced
Apology

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