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Maria Edgeworth Quote: “Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.”

51. “Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.”

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Maria Edgeworth Quote: “Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.”

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

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Maria Edgeworth Quote: “Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can’t think for themselves – But when one has made up one’s opinions, there is no use in reading.”

53. “Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can’t think for themselves – But when one has made up one’s opinions, there is no use in reading.”

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Maria Edgeworth Quote: “First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.”

54. “First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.”

— Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth Quote: “It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.”

55. “It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.”

— Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth Quote: “Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.”

56. “Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.”

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Maria Edgeworth Quote: “The common female blue is indeed intolerable as a wife – opinionative and opinionated; and her opinion always is that her husband is wrong. John certainly has a rooted aversion to this whole class. There is the deep blue and the light; the light blues not esteemed – not admitted at Almacks. The deep-dyed in the nine times dyed blue – is that with which no man dares contend. The blue chatterer is seen and heard every where; it no man will attempt to silence by throwing the handkerchief.”

57. “The common female blue is indeed intolerable as a wife – opinionative and opinionated; and her opinion always is that her husband is wrong. John certainly has a rooted aversion to this whole class. There is the deep blue and the light; the light blues not esteemed – not admitted at Almacks. The deep-dyed in the nine times dyed blue – is that with which no man dares contend. The blue chatterer is seen and heard every where; it no man will attempt to silence by throwing the handkerchief.”

— Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth Quote: “A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.”

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

— Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth Quote: “The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.”

59. “The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.”

— Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth Quote: “When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.”

60. “When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.”

— Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth Quote: “Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.”

61. “Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.”

— Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth Quote: “We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice...”

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

— Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth Quote: “The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.”

63. “The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.”

— Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth Quote: “No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.”

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

— Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth Quote: “Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.”

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

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Maria Edgeworth Quote: “How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?”

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

— Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth Quote: “Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!”

67. “Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!”

— Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth Quote: “Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.”

68. “Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.”

— Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth Quote: “Besides the bore condescending, who, whether good-natured or ill-natured, is a most provoking animal – there is the bore facetious, an insufferable creature, always laughing, but with whom you can never laugh. And there is another exotic variety – the vive la bagatelle bore of the ape kind – who imitate men of genius. Having early been taught that there is nothing more delightful than the unbending of a great mind, they set about continually to unbend the bow in company.”

69. “Besides the bore condescending, who, whether good-natured or ill-natured, is a most provoking animal – there is the bore facetious, an insufferable creature, always laughing, but with whom you can never laugh. And there is another exotic variety – the vive la bagatelle bore of the ape kind – who imitate men of genius. Having early been taught that there is nothing more delightful than the unbending of a great mind, they set about continually to unbend the bow in company.”

— Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth Quote: “Justice satisfies everybody.”

70. “Justice satisfies everybody.”

— Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth Quote: “Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.”

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

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Maria Edgeworth Quote: “We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.”

72. “We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.”

— Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth Quote: “Make it a rule, you know, to believe only half the world says.”

73. “Make it a rule, you know, to believe only half the world says.”

— Maria Edgeworth

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