Maria Edgeworth Short Quotes

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Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

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Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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An orator is the worst person to tell a plain fact...

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

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Tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

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

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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

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

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

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Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

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

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

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

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Well! some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

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

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

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

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He found that the spirits can be raised by self-complacency even more agreeably than by burgundy.

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It is safer to judge of people by their conduct to others than by their manners towards ourselves.

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