Quotes from Maria Edgeworth


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

    Age | Heart | Whatever


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

    Religion | Morality | Property


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

    Plain | Worse | Orator


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

    Wheel | Point | Fortune


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

    Hurt | Class | Themselves


    Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

    Business | Pleasure | Aversion


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

    Great | Die | Funeral


    Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

    Heart | Irish | Blunders


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

    Remember | Forget | Forgive


    How success changes the opinion of men!

    Success | Men | Opinion


    The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

    Law | Seems | Reverse


       

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