Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.
More Quotes from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu:
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide, In part she is to blame that has been tried He comes too near that comes to be denied.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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
Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
It's all been very interesting.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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