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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-edgeworth/the-prevailing-taste-of-the-public-for-anecdote-has-been-censured-and/)

[Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-edgeworth/)

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## Other authors on Anecdote

- [Weston Locher 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anecdote/weston-locher/)

## More by Maria Edgeworth

> [There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-edgeworth/there-are-two-sorts-of-content-one-is-connected-with-exertion-the/)

[Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-edgeworth/)

> [We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-edgeworth/we-may-make-our-future-by-the-best-use-of-the-present-there-is-no/)

[Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-edgeworth/)

> [An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-edgeworth/an-orator-is-the-worse-person-to-tell-a-plain-fact/)

[Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-edgeworth/)

> [Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-edgeworth/books-only-spoil-the-originality-of-genius-very-well-for-those-who/)

[Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-edgeworth/)

> [“I can but just recollect having been amused at the Theatres, and the Opera, and the Pantheon, and Ranelagh, and all those places, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-edgeworth/i-can-but-just-recollect-having-been-amused-at-the-theatres-and-the/)

[Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-edgeworth/)

> [Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-edgeworth/fortune-s-wheel-never-stands-still-the-highest-point-is-therefore-the/)

[Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-edgeworth/)

> [Justice satisfies everybody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-edgeworth/justice-satisfies-everybody/)

[Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-edgeworth/)

> [How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-edgeworth/how-is-it-that-hope-so-powerfully-excites-and-fear-so-absolutely/)

[Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-edgeworth/)

> [Health can make money, but money cannot make health.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-edgeworth/health-can-make-money-but-money-cannot-make-health/)

[Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-edgeworth/)

> [Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-edgeworth/sir-patrick-rackrent-lived-and-died-a-monument-of-old-irish/)

[Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-edgeworth/)

> [In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-edgeworth/in-real-friendship-the-judgment-the-genius-the-prudence-of-each-party/)

[Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-edgeworth/)

> [According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-edgeworth/according-to-the-asiatics-cupid-s-bow-is-strung-with-bees-which-are/)

[Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-edgeworth/)

> [My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-edgeworth/my-mother-took-too-much-a-great-deal-too-much-care-of-me-she-over/)

[Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-edgeworth/we-cannot-judge-either-of-the-feelings-or-of-the-characters-of-men/)

[Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-edgeworth/)

> [If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-edgeworth/if-young-women-were-not-deceived-into-a-belief-that-affectation/)

[Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-edgeworth/)

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