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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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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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Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
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As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
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I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
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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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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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It has all been most interesting.
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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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