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Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.
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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My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
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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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The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
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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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Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.
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Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
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One can never outlive one's vanity.
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Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
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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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We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
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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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We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.
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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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Life is too short for a long story
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General notions are generally wrong.
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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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