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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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Mary Wortley Montagu
Age: 73 †
Born: 1689
Born: January 1
Died: 1762
Died: August 21
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I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.
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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
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Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
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People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
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Conscience is justice's best minister it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.
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It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.
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The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
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Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
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It has all been most interesting.
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I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
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You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.
Mary Wortley Montagu
As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
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Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
Mary Wortley Montagu
... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.
Mary Wortley Montagu
General notions are generally wrong.
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Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
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Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
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