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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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One can never outlive one's vanity.
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We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
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As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
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... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.
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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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The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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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.
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As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes and wrangling.
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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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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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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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people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
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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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A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.
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Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
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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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