Maria Edgeworth Quotes
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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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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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.
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sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.
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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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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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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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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 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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Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
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Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
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Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
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Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
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Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.
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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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Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.
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wit is often its own worst enemy.
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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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Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.
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The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.
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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.
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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.
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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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There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.
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If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
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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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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.
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Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!
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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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