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There are two sorts of content...

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

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Nature's hasty conscience....

Nature's hasty conscience.

Maria Edgeworth 99 quotes

Our pleasures in literature do...

Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.

Maria Edgeworth 99 quotes

Books only spoil the originali...

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.

Maria Edgeworth 99 quotes

The bore is good for promoting...

The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.

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why will friends publish all t...

why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

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It is quite fitting that chari...

It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

Maria Edgeworth 99 quotes

sometimes the very faults of p...

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

Maria Edgeworth 99 quotes

Those who have lived in a hous...

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 99 quotes

When the mind is full of any o...

When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.

Maria Edgeworth 99 quotes

No man ever distinguished hims...

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

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The Irish sometimes make and k...

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

Maria Edgeworth 99 quotes

you've always been living on p...

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

Maria Edgeworth 99 quotes

when driven to the necessity o...

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

Maria Edgeworth 99 quotes

How is it that hope so powerfu...

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

Maria Edgeworth 99 quotes

Now flattery can never do good...

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

Maria Edgeworth 99 quotes

Persons not habituated to reas...

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

Maria Edgeworth 99 quotes

Habit is, to weak minds, a spe...

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

Maria Edgeworth 99 quotes

Health can make money, but mon...

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

Maria Edgeworth 99 quotes

Home! With what different sens...

Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!

Maria Edgeworth 99 quotes

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