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.


Helen (1834), ch. 7; Tales and Novels, vol. 19, p. 62.

Maria Edgeworth Quotes

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...