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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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The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.
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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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As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
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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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Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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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.
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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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My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
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Life is too short for a long story
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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
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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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General notions are generally wrong.
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Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
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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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Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
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