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Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.
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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The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another.
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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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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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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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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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Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.
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General notions are generally wrong.
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Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
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people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
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Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.
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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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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
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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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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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One can never outlive one's vanity.
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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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As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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