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Type: Novelist Quotes Category: Irish Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: January 1, 1767 Date of Death: May 22, 1849 Nationality: Irish Find on Amazon: Maria Edgeworth Related Authors: James Joyce Elizabeth Bowen Laurence Sterne Robert Graves Edna O'Brien Brian Moore George A. Moore Joyce Cary |
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
Maria Edgeworth Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business. Maria Edgeworth Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. Maria Edgeworth How success changes the opinion of men! Maria Edgeworth I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die. Maria Edgeworth Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. Maria Edgeworth Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. Maria Edgeworth Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget. Maria Edgeworth The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves. Maria Edgeworth The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. Maria Edgeworth The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law. Maria Edgeworth |
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