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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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As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
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Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.
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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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It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.
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Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.
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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes and wrangling.
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Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
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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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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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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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people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
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Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
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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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Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
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Life is too short for a long story
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It has all been most interesting.
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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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We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
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