Maria Edgeworth Quotes - Page 2

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• Justice satisfies everybody.

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  Justice

  Maria Edgeworth (1867). “Frank”, p.68

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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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  Two, Lines, Morality

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.306

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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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  Party, Way

  'Castle Rackrent' (1800) 'Continuation of Memoirs'

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• An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

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  Speech, Facts, Persons

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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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  Mother, Daughter, Men

  1812 Count O'Halloran's advice to Lord Colambare. The Absentee, ch.15.

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• sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

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  Children, Opposites, Parent

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.302

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• I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

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  Funeral, Fancy, My Own

  Maria Edgeworth (2005). “Tales and Novels”, p.52

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• The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.

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  Lovers, Everlasting, Quotations

  Maria Edgeworth (1850). “Harrington, and thoughts on bores, v. 17-18”

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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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  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.192

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• It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

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  Heart, Years, Age

  Maria Edgeworth (1855). “Tales and Novels: The absentee (concluded) Madame de Fleury. Emilie de Coulanges. The modern Griselda”, p.62

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• there is no reasoning with imagination.

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  Imagination, Reasoning

  Maria Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.398

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• Young ladies who think of nothing but dress, public amusements, and forming what they call high connexions, are undoubtedly most easily managed, by the fear of what the world will say of them.

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  Thinking, Amusement, Dresses

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.248

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• When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

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  Horizon, Retreat, Illusion

  Maria Edgeworth (1833). “Tales and Novels”, p.320

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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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  Sex, Forgiving, Talent

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.26

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• Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

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  Motherhood, Land, People

  'The Absentee' (1812) ch. 2

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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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  Real, Character, Men

  Maria Edgeworth “Castle Rackrent”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

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  Hope, Depressing, Fear

  Maria Edgeworth, Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1971). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.

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  Book, Thinking, Age

  Maria Edgeworth (1895). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”

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• It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

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  Home, Charity, Needs

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.62

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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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  Book, Ideas, Mind

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825”, p.31

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• Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

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  Mind, Moral, Habit

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.271

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• Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.

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  Men, Mind, Liberty

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.198

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• Come when you're called; And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid.

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  Doors, Obedience

  'The Contrast' (1804) ch. 1

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• Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

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  Sorry, Get Well, Occupation

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.20

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• The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.

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  Sleep, Long, Mouths

  Maria Edgeworth (1848). “Harrington ; Thoughts on bores ; and, Ormond”, p.209

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