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

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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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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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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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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.
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According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.
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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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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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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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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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Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.
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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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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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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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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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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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