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• why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

  Maria Edgeworth

  People, Together, Fame

  Maria Edgeworth (1894). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”

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• The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Hurt, Class, Bores

  Maria Edgeworth (1874). “Harrington. Thoughts on bores. Ormond”, p.209

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• How success changes the opinion of men!

  Maria Edgeworth

  Men, Opinion

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.87

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• Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Curious, Wit

  Maria Edgeworth (1874). “Patronage”, p.183

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• Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Children, Real, Medicine

  "Tales and Novels". Book by Maria Edgeworth, vol. 14, p. 245, 1843.

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• Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Pain, Unnecessary, Teach

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Modern Griselda. Moral tales. 1825”, p.83

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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.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Suffering, Literature, May

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• ... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Fall, Confusion, Use

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Letters to literary ladies. Castle Rackrent. Leonora. Essay on Irish bulls. 1824”, p.40

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• Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Mean, Men, Law

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.59

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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.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Magic, Wish, Fairy

  Maria Edgeworth (1848). “Forester. The Prussian vase. The good aunt. Angelina. The good French governess. Mademoiselle Panache. The knapsack”, p.422

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• The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Thinking, Judgment, Trouble

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.33

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• Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Wheels, Fortune, Stills

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.20

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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.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Bows, Bees, Sometimes

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• I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Art, Procrastination, Apology

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.388

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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.

  Maria Edgeworth

  First Love, Firsts, Merit

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.216

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• The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Real, Feelings, Ridiculous

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.272

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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.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Beauty, Vanity, Heaven

  Maria Edgeworth (1850). “Helen: A Tale”, p.57

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• how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Laughter, Laughing, Impossible

  Maria Edgeworth (1894). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”

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• I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Life, Appreciation, Gratitude

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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

  Men, Space, Portions

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.77

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• Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Sports, Men, Ideas

  'Letters of Julia and Caroline' (1787) Letter 1

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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.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Hope, Men, Have A Great Day

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• you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Thinking, Expectations, Mountain

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825”, p.236

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• The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Drinking, Whiskey, Sometimes

  Maria Edgeworth (1848). “Castle Rackrent. An essay on Irish bulls. An essay on the noble science of self-justification. Ennui. The dun”, p.28

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• Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Giving, Receiving, Flattery

  Maria Edgeworth (1971). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”

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