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People never write calmly but when they write indifferently (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
Life is too short for a long story (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
General notions are generally wrong (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
In short I will part with anything for you but you (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
Sometimes I give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
To always be loved one must ever be agreeable (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
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 (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
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 (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it (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 (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
It goes far to reconciling me to being a women when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
In part she is to blame that has been tried. He comes too late that comes to be denied (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
It is eleven years since I have seen my figure in a glass. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable, I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
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 (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
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 (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man’s unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them! (Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes)