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Maria Edgeworth [1767-1849] Irish
Rank: 107
Novelist, Writer


Maria Edgeworth 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.

Age, Religion



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The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. Age
101
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. Religion
102
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
103
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
104
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
105
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
106
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
107
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
108
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
109
How success changes the opinion of men!
110
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
111

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