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Source: Belinda
“Nature knows best, and she says, roar!”
Source: Tales and novels: in 9 volumes
Source: Works
“It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.”
Source: Forester. The Prussian vase. The good aunt. Angelina. The good French governess. Mademoiselle Panache. The knapsack
Source: Forester. The Prussian vase. The good aunt. Angelina. The good French governess. Mademoiselle Panache. The knapsack
Source: Works
Source: Works
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Modern Griselda. Moral tales. 1825
Source: Works
“Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.”
“Come when you're called; And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid.”
“Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.”
“Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.”
Source: Works
Source: Castle Rackrent
“A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.”
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825
Source: Works
Source: Tales and Novels: The absentee (concluded) Madame de Fleury. Emilie de Coulanges. The modern Griselda
“It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.”
Source: Works
“Confidence is the best proof of love.”
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825
“Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.”
Source: Patronage
Source: Helen: A Tale
Source: Works
Source: Works
Source: The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth
Source: Works
Source: Harrington ; Thoughts on bores ; and, Ormond
“why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?”
Source: The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth
Source: Works
“sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.”
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Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825
“No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.”
Source: Tales of Fashionable Life: The absentee, ch. 6-17
Source: Castle Rackrent. An essay on Irish bulls. An essay on the noble science of self-justification. Ennui. The dun
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825
“when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.”
Source: Works
“How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?”
Source: The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth
“Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth
Source: Works
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823
“Health can make money, but money cannot make health.”
Source: Works
“Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!”
Source: Works