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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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I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.
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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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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
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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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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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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
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One can never outlive one's vanity.
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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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Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
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I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.
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... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.
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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.
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General notions are generally wrong.
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People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
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In short I will part with anything for you but you.
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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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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
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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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I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
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