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A face is too slight a foundation for happiness (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
One can never outlive one’s vanity (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short. (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
Civility costs nothing, and buys everything (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
It has all been very interesting (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, wound with a touch that’s scarcely felt or seen (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
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 (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
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 (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
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 (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
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. (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
‘Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one’s power to do good, riches being another word for power. (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
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. (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
It has all been most interesting (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
It’s all been very interesting (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
Begin nothing without considering what the end may be (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
Forgive what you can’t excuse (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
One would suffer a great deal to be happy (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
To be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)