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... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.
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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Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
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Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
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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.
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You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
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One can never outlive one's vanity.
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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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People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
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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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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.
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Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
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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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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
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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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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
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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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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
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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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I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.
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