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It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.
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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We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.
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You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
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Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
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General notions are generally wrong.
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We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
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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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Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
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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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Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.
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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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Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
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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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As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes and wrangling.
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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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Prudent people are very happy 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
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Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
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People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
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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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One can never outlive one's vanity.
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
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