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Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
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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As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes and wrangling.
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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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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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General notions are generally wrong.
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One can never outlive one's vanity.
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Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
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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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Conscience is justice's best minister it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.
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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
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It has all been most interesting.
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You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
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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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