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We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
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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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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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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I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.
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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
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Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
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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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... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.
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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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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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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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As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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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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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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We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
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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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people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
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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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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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