“ 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. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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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. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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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. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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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. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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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. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews; The rage but not the talent to abuse. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews; The rage but not the talent to abuse. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ But the fruit that can fall without shaking, Indeed is too mellow for me. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ But the fruit that can fall without shaking, Indeed is too mellow for me. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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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. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews; The rage but not the talent to abuse. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews; The rage but not the talent to abuse. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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