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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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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We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
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... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.
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We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
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The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
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Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.
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The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.
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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.
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The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another.
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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
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One can never outlive one's vanity.
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It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
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You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
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In short I will part with anything for you but you.
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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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Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
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Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
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people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
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