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I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings. (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.

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You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.

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It has all been very interesting.

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I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

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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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The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

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There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

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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. (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

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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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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

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Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.

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Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

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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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As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

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One can never outlive one's vanity.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Vices are often hid under the name of virtues, and the practice of them followed by the worst consequences. I have seen ladies indulge their own ill-humor by being very rude and impertinent, and think they deserve approbation by saying, "I love to speak the truth." (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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Occupation: English Writer
Born: May 15, 1689
Died: August 21, 1762
Quotes count: 46
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