Maria Edgeworth Quotes about Children

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sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

Children, Opposites, Parent

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.302

Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.

Maria Edgeworth

Children, Real, Medicine

"Tales and Novels". Book by Maria Edgeworth, vol. 14, p. 245, 1843.

Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

Maria Edgeworth

Children, Sight, House

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.258