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people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
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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One can never outlive one's vanity.
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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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Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies I no longer read anything but novels.
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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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Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
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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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The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.
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How many thousands ... earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession -- I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own.
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In short I will part with anything for you but you.
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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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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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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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Life is too short for a long story
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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.
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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
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As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
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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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As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes and wrangling.
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