We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
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The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.Mary Wortley Montagu
It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
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
Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
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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