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My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
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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Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
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Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
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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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people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
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Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.
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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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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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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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Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
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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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The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
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... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.
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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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It has all been most interesting.
Mary Wortley Montagu
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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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I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
Mary Wortley Montagu
To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
Mary Wortley Montagu
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
Mary Wortley Montagu
