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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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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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... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.
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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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Life is too short for a long story
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I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
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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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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
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Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
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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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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
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One can never outlive one's vanity.
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In short I will part with anything for you but you.
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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
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General notions are generally wrong.
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People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
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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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Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
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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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Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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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