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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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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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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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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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people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
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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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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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The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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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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General notions are generally wrong.
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People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
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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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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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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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Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
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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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Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
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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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One can never outlive one's vanity.
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