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