- Maria Edgeworth
(01/01/1767 – 05/22/1849)
Irish writer
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| Died 12/31 | Died 01/01 | Died 01/02 | Death Dates |
"Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart."
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| "Thou shalt have one God only; who would be at the expense of two?"
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| "Could we see when and where we would meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye." |  |
"The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology."
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"All men are equal—that is to say, who possess umbrellas."
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"The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair."
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"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."
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| "Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum." |  |
"He talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read 'Playboy' magazine with your wife turning the pages."
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"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."
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"Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find those potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva."
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"You cannot run faster than a bullet."
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"He probably scared the sh*t out of his mother, too."
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"If there's another f890ing show or movie about New York and everyone's white I'm gonna f890ing die. That is so unacceptable."
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"Television is very tiring."
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"I admire the relationship she had with John Lennon and hope I can be a similar influence to Tiger."
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| Born 12/31 | Born 01/01 | Born 01/02 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 12/31 | Died 01/01 | Died 01/02 | Death Dates |