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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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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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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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You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
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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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General notions are generally wrong.
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
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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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The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
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The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.
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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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Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
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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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As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes and wrangling.
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How many thousands ... earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession -- I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own.
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As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
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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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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
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Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.
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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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