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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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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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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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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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The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
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Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
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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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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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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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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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In short I will part with anything for you but you.
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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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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 no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
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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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Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
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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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Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
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