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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
Writer
Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
Perfectly
Hurried
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Curses
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Guinea
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Agreed
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Horses
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Wheels
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Guineas
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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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Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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