Solitude begets whimsies.
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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
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
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
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
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Life is too short for a long story.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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