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Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
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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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
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Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.
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We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
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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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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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As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes and wrangling.
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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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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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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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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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You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
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People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
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Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.
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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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A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.
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General notions are generally wrong.
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