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Maria Edgeworth
Irish
Novelist
About the author
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
Maria Edgeworth,
Irish
Novelist
#Fact
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
Maria Edgeworth,
Irish
Novelist
#Pleasure
#Business
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Maria Edgeworth,
Irish
Novelist
#Fortune
How success changes the opinion of men!
Maria Edgeworth,
Irish
Novelist
#Success
#Opinion
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
Maria Edgeworth,
Irish
Novelist
#Fancy
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
Maria Edgeworth,
Irish
Novelist
#Heart
#Irish
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
Maria Edgeworth,
Irish
Novelist
#Talk
#People
#Religion
#Morality
#Property
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Maria Edgeworth,
Irish
Novelist
#Forget
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
Maria Edgeworth,
Irish
Novelist
#Hurt
#Class
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth,
Irish
Novelist
#Heart
#Age
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,
Irish
Novelist
#Right
#Law