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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

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Maria Edgeworth

Tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

Maria Edgeworth

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