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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
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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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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One can never outlive one's vanity.
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Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.
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Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
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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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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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My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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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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I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.
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Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
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We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
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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 one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.
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Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.
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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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Life is too short for a long story
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
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Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.
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