“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
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Famous Maria Edgeworth Quotes
“Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.”
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825
“Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.”