13 ordspråk av Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact . . .
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And all the young ladies said that a love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could anyway afford it.
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Business was his pleasure; pleasure was his business.
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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
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Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
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Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
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Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property
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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.
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The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law
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When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.
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