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As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes and wrangling.
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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Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies I no longer read anything but novels.
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I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.
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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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Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
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People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
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How many thousands ... earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession -- I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own.
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Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.
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Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
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People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
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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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We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
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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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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
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Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
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Prudent people are very happy 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
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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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In short I will part with anything for you but you.
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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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