We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from… - Maria Edgeworth
" "We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.
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About Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a popular and influential Anglo-Irish novelist, short-story writer and educationalist.
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To our unhappy sex genius and sensibility are the most treacherous gifts of Heaven. Why should we cultivate talents merely to gratify the caprice of tyrants? 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 us the narrow limits, the Gothic structure, the impenetrable barriers of our prison.
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