Quotes by Maria Edgeworth

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions...

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The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought...

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

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Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

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

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How success changes the opinion of men!

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

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Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

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

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

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The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds...

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

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