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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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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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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.
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We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
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As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
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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 most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
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It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
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It has all been most interesting.
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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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Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
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We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
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As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes and wrangling.
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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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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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One can never outlive one's vanity.
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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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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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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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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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