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Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.

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
Vast
Thoughts
Small
Space
Woman
Occupies
Men
Fills
Love
Portion
Life
Portions

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In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.
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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
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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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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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