Life is too short for a long story.
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I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.Mary Wortley Montagu
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
It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasure for every state.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Solitude begets whimsies.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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