Maria Edgeworth - The Absentee (1812)

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

Maria Edgeworth

It was her settled purpose to make the Irish and Ireland ridiculous and contemptible to Lord Colambre; to disgust him with his native country; to make him abandon the wish of residing on his own estate. To confirm him an absentee was her object.

Maria Edgeworth

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Maria Edgeworth

In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.

Maria Edgeworth