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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at. — Maria Edgeworth

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

Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced! — Maria Edgeworth

The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous. — Maria Edgeworth

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present. — Maria Edgeworth

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

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

Why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people? — Maria Edgeworth

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

There is no reasoning with imagination. — Maria Edgeworth

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

Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves. — Maria Edgeworth

Sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children. — Maria Edgeworth

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

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. — Maria Edgeworth

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

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

When people are warm, they cannot stand picking terms. — Maria Edgeworth

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both. — Maria Edgeworth

Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits. — Maria Edgeworth

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action. — Maria Edgeworth

Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole. — Maria Edgeworth

Confidence is the best proof of love. — Maria Edgeworth

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

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. — Maria Edgeworth

It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine. — Maria Edgeworth

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

The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning. — Maria Edgeworth

What a treasure, to meet with any thing a new heart
all hearts, nowadays, are secondhand at best. — Maria Edgeworth

A straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics. — Maria Edgeworth

Belinda is not quite so great a philosopher as I imagined. — Maria Edgeworth

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

Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life. — Maria Edgeworth

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact. — Maria Edgeworth

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

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched. — Maria Edgeworth

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

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. — Maria Edgeworth

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

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear. — Maria Edgeworth

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

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give. — Maria Edgeworth

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget. — Maria Edgeworth

Health can make money, but money cannot make health. — Maria Edgeworth

A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it. — Maria Edgeworth

How success changes the opinion of men! — Maria Edgeworth

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die. — Maria Edgeworth

Nature knows best, and she says, roar! — Maria Edgeworth

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality. — Maria Edgeworth

It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger. — Maria Edgeworth

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

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business. — Maria Edgeworth

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. — Maria Edgeworth

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

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

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice ... — Maria Edgeworth

When driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant. — Maria Edgeworth

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

Wit is often its own worst enemy. — Maria Edgeworth

Tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood. — Maria Edgeworth

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

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

How impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others. — Maria Edgeworth

Half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow. — Maria Edgeworth

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much. — Maria Edgeworth