Maria Edgeworth Quotes - Famous Quotes by Maria Edgeworth
Born: 1767-01-01
Died: 1849-05-22
Maria Edgeworth Biography
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
- Maria Edgeworth
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Fortune's wheel never stands still. The highest point is therefore the most perilous.
- Maria Edgeworth
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Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
- Maria Edgeworth
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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
- Maria Edgeworth
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The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
- Maria Edgeworth
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There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
- Maria Edgeworth
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