Maria Edgeworth
Novelist
1767-01-01
Books by Maria Edgeworth
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Castle Rackrent
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Tales and Novels
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The Parent's Assistent
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Quotes by Maria Edgeworth
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The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics, who aspire to the character of superior wisdom: but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this taste is an incontestible proof of the good sense and profoundly philosophic temper of the present times. Of the numbers who study, or at least who read history, how few derive any advantage from their labors!
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The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics, who aspire to the character of superior wisdom: but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this taste is an incontestible proof of the good sense and profoundly philosophic temper of the present times. Of the numbers who study, or at least who read history, how few derive any advantage from their labors!
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The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
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Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.
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Well! Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
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