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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
Maria Edgeworth
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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
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Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.
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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
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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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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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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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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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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
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Beauty is a great gift of heaven not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.
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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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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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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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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.
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There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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