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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.
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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Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.
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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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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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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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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
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We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.
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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
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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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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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Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
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As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
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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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Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
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Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
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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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The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
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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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Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
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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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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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