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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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 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
Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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