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“The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.”

Quote by Maria Edgeworth

Book:Works

Work

This book encompasses a variety of literary works, including essays, poems, and other forms of prose, showcasing the author's or authors' diverse talents and ideas. more

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Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth, born on January 1, 1768, and died on May 22, 1849, was an outstanding Irish novelist. Her works are known for their delicate psychological portrayals and profound insights into social issues, which had a profound impact on 19th-century British literature. more

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“Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.”

Men Mind Young Pleasure Liberty Train Notion Noise Young Man Mistaken Idleness Riot Mischief Nameless Ennui

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.”

Pain Teach Bounds Falsehood Unnecessary Politeness

Book:Works of Maria Edgeworth: Modern Griselda. Moral tales. 1825

Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Modern Griselda. Moral tales. 1825

“Young ladies who think of nothing but dress, public amusements, and forming what they call high connexions, are undoubtedly most easily managed, by the fear of what the world will say of them.”

Thinking World Young Dresses Amusement Young Ladies Connexion

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Source: Works

“Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be 'soonmoved withtheslightesttouch of blame'; very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them all the maxims, of self-justification.”

Littles Self Practice Generations Habit Succeed Daughter Fairs Blame Possessed Justification Maxims Propensity Hereditary Self Justification

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“Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.”

Men Ideas Sports Pleasure Break Chains Submit

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“I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.”

Would Be Building Driven Acceptable

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“Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.”

Died Hospitality Monument

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“Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey?”

Teach Drink Beer Whiskey Militia Artisans

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“Come when you're called; And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid.”

Doors Obedience

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“What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.”

Ifs Shows Light Break Darkness Prove Limits Structure Prison Visible Barriers Misfortunes Rays Gothic Wretchedness Rays Of Light

Author:Maria Edgeworth