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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
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Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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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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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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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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I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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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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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
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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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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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Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey?
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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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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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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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Justice satisfies everybody.
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