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Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.

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Mary Wortley Montagu
Age: 73 †
Born: 1689
Born: January 1
Died: 1762
Died: August 21
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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
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Conscience is justice's best minister it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.
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Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.
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We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.
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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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We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
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people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
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Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.
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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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Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
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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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As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
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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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Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
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People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
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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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