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Maria Edgeworth quotes: No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at. No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: 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. 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.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced! Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!
Maria Edgeworth quotes: The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous. The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present. We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be. Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: 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. 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.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people? Why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
Maria Edgeworth quotes: The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time. The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: There is no reasoning with imagination. There is no reasoning with imagination.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage. Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves. Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children. Sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: You've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect. 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 quotes: Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well. Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: When people are warm, they cannot stand picking terms. When people are warm, they cannot stand picking terms.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both. In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits. Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action. Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole. Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Confidence is the best proof of love. Confidence is the best proof of love.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced. I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine. It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it. 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 quotes: The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning. The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: What a treasure, to meet with any thing a new heart all hearts, nowadays, are secondhand at best. What a treasure, to meet with any thing a new heart
all hearts, nowadays, are secondhand at best.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: A straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics. A straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Belinda is not quite so great a philosopher as I imagined. Belinda is not quite so great a philosopher as I imagined.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain ... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods. Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain ... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life. Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact. An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched. Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours. Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Come when you're called; And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid. Come when you're called; And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear. Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves. The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give. Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget. Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Health can make money, but money cannot make health. Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it. A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: How success changes the opinion of men! How success changes the opinion of men!
Maria Edgeworth quotes: I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die. I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Nature knows best, and she says, roar! Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality. Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger. It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape. Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business. Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: 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. 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.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties? How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
Maria Edgeworth quotes: We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice ... We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice ...
Maria Edgeworth quotes: When driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant. When driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: 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? 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?
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Wit is often its own worst enemy. Wit is often its own worst enemy.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood. Tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law. The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: 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. 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 quotes: How impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others. How impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: Half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow. Half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.
Maria Edgeworth quotes: If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much. 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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