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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.
Maria Edgeworth
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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
Essayist
Novelist
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Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
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Guineas
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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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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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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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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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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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