Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
More Quotes from Mary Wortley Montagu:
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason if some few get above their nurses' instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.Mary Wortley Montagu
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
Mary Wortley Montagu
In short I will part with anything for you but you.
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.
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