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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.
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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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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Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.
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A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.
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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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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 all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.
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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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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
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The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.
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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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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
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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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Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.
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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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People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
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As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
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Life is too short for a long story
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... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.
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It has all been most interesting.
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Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
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