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One can never outlive one's vanity.
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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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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Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
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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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We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
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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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My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
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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 most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
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You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
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Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
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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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As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes and wrangling.
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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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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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I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.
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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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