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And all the young ladies said that a love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could anyway afford it.


Maria Edgeworth

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MARIA BARTIROMO It's unhealthy to live a life with regrets.
MARIA BARRAGAN When you're an immigrant, you just want a paycheck.
MARIA MARTINEZ I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a mor...
MARIA BAMFORD In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more fr...
MARIA SEMPLE The language of the ordinance implies that we're in the business of prostitution rather than massage...
MARIA ROSSI I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who a...
MARIA SHRIVER Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
MARIA MITCHELL Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not
MARIA MITCHELL I’m not the next anyone, I’m the first Maria Sharapova
MARIA SHARAPOVA I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long t...
MARIA SEMPLE Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obs...
MARIA MONTESSORI Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
MARIA CALLAS When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply a...
MARIA SEMPLE Following intuition allows decision and action to be made in the same instant.
MARIA ERVING