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Maria Edgeworth

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


— Maria Edgeworth


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


— Maria Edgeworth


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Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.


— Maria Edgeworth


#business #his #pleasure

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


— Maria Edgeworth


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How success changes the opinion of men!


— Maria Edgeworth


#how #men #opinion #success

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


— Maria Edgeworth


#fancy #funeral #great #i #my own

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.


— Maria Edgeworth


#heart #irish #never #our

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


— Maria Edgeworth


#give me #little #me #morality #people

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


— Maria Edgeworth


#class #considered #creature #harmless #hurt

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


— Maria Edgeworth


#heart #human #human heart #only #opens






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Did you know about Maria Edgeworth?

She chose to write a novel focused on the characters and situation rather than moral lessons. Silent fixed concentration might be empowering and generative of deep insights. It humorously and satirically explores the feminine argumentative method.

Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a prolific Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She held advanced views for a woman of her time on estate management politics and education and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe.

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