Maria Edgeworth Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Maria Edgeworth:

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
~Maria Edgeworth


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Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
~Maria Edgeworth


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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maria-edgeworth-quotes/#e5b386a4

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maria-edgeworth-quotes/#cc9ead36

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maria-edgeworth-quotes/#247e9a95

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
~Maria Edgeworth


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maria-edgeworth-quotes/#70009c3e

How success changes the opinion of men!
~Maria Edgeworth


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maria-edgeworth-quotes/#cf6d55f8

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maria-edgeworth-quotes/#ec6cf040

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maria-edgeworth-quotes/#488b4910

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maria-edgeworth-quotes/#d52c67c0

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