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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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Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
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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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The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.
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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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Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
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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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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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In short I will part with anything for you but you.
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A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.
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As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes and wrangling.
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We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
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The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.
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General notions are generally wrong.
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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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It has all been most interesting.
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One can never outlive one's vanity.
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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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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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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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