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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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Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
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You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
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Prudent people are very happy 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
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People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
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Life is too short for a long story
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In short I will part with anything for you but you.
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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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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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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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People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
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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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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
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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 ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
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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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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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One can never outlive one's vanity.
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As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes and wrangling.
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