Maria Edgeworth Quotes about Giving

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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

Giving, Promise, Dangerous

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.270

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

Giving, Receiving, Flattery

Maria Edgeworth (1971). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”