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Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo.

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The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

Against, Drinking, Sometimes, Time, Usually, Whiskey

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

Friendship, Real, Party, Become, Judgment

How success changes the opinion of men!

Changes, Men, Opinion, Success

every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.

Bear, Expect, Men, Part, Party, Running

First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.

Circumstances, Essentials, First Love, Firsts, Love, Object

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

Future, May, Moment, Moments, Use

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

Bid, Chid, Door, Doors, Obedience, Shut

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

Get Well, Illness, Occupation, Sorry

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

Depressing, Excites, Fear, Hope

why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

Celebrated, Fame, People, Together

Nature knows best, and she says, roar!

Pain, Knows, Roar, Nature, Says

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

Children, Opposite, Opposites, Parent, Produce, Tendency

It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.

Easy, Good, Imagine, May

Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.

Fairies, Fairy, Magic, Tell, Truth, Wish

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

Land, Motherhood, People, Property, Talk

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.

Amusements, Call, Connexions, Dresses, Thinking, World

A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.

Party, Way, Thing, Parties, Afford

It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.

Courage, Sometimes, Danger, Requires, Fly

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

Bear, Confidence, Laughed, Laughter, Man, Men

Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended. . . The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.

Alarmed, Children, Dead, Dosed, Medicine, Real

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