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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 believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
Mary Wortley Montagu
General notions are generally wrong.
Mary Wortley Montagu
As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes and wrangling.
Mary Wortley Montagu
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
Mary Wortley Montagu
We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
Mary Wortley Montagu
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
Mary Wortley Montagu
To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
Mary Wortley Montagu
people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
Mary Wortley Montagu
You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
Mary Wortley Montagu
