Maria Edgeworth — Irish Novelist born on January 01, 1767, died on May 22, 1849

Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo... (wikipedia)

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.