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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
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Space
Woman
Occupies
Men
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Love
Portion
Life
Portions
Vast
Thoughts

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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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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.
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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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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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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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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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When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.
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What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.
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[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.
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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.
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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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