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1. "The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return." ~ Maria Edgeworth
2. "Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget." ~ Maria Edgeworth
3. "Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business." ~ Maria Edgeworth
4. "Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous." ~ Maria Edgeworth
5. "How success changes the opinion of men!" ~ Maria Edgeworth
6. "Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart." ~ Maria Edgeworth
7. "Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property." ~ Maria Edgeworth
8. "The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves." ~ Maria Edgeworth
9. "The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law." ~ Maria Edgeworth
10. "An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact." ~ Maria Edgeworth
11. "If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much." ~ Maria Edgeworth
12. "What a treasure, to meet with any thing a new heart-- all hearts, nowadays, are secondhand at best." ~ Maria Edgeworth
13. "So quickly in youth do different and opposite trains of ideas and emotions succeed to each other; and so easy it is, by a timely exercise of reason and self-command, to prevent a fancy from becoming a passion." ~ Maria Edgeworth
14. "Clarence Hervey might have been more than a pleasant young man, if he had not been smitten with the desire of being thought superior in every thing, and of being the most admired person in all companies. He had been early flattered with the idea that he was a man of genius; and he imagined that, as such, he was entitled to be imprudent, wild, and eccentric. He affected singularity, in order to establish his claims to genius. He had considerable literary talents, by which he was distinguished at Oxford; but he was so dreadfully afraid of passing for a pedant, that when he came into the company of the idle and the ignorant, he pretended to disdain every species of knowledge. His chameleon character seemed to vary in different lights, and according to the different situations in which he happened to be placed. He could be all things to all men—and to all women." ~ Maria Edgeworth
15. "It is sometimes fortunate, that the means which are taken to produce certain effects upon the mind have a tendency directly opposite to what is expected." ~ Maria Edgeworth
16. "The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics, who aspire to the character of superior wisdom: but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this taste is an incontestible proof of the good sense and profoundly philosophic temper of the present times. Of the numbers who study, or at least who read history, how few derive any advantage from their labors!" ~ Maria Edgeworth
17. "... Belinda is not quite so great a philosopher as I imagined." ~ Maria Edgeworth
18. "When a man's over head and shoulders in debt, he may live the faster for it, and the better if he goes the right way about it, or else how is it so many live so well, as we see every day after they are ruined?" ~ Maria Edgeworth
19. ". . .for observe, with me esteem ever followed affection, instead of affection following esteem. Woe be to all who in morals preposterously put the cart before the horse!" ~ Maria Edgeworth
20. "When people are warm, they cannot stand picking terms." ~ Maria Edgeworth

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He is in no real danger. He merely suffers from a lethargy, a sickness that is common among the depressed. He has forgotten who he really is, but he will recover, for he used to know me, and all I have to do is cloud the mist that beclouds his vision."
Author: Boethius

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