Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Book, Writing, Giving

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.642, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

• People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  People, Giving, Enemy

  Letter from Horace Walpole to the Earl of Harcourt, 17 September 1778, in W. S. Lewis et al. (eds.) 'Horace Walpole's Correspondence' vol. 35 (1973) p. 489

• A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Science, Giving, Wish

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