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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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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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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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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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people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
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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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You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
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Life is too short for a long story
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As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes and wrangling.
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People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
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Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.
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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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We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
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Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
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I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.
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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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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
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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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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
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