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• But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Success, Encouragement, Fall

  'Answered, for Lord William Hamilton' in Lord Wharncliffe (ed.) 'The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' (1861) vol. 2, p. 477

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• Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Women, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.415

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• I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Believe, Empathy, Apathy

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.142

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• Solitude begets whimsies.

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  Solitude, Whimsy, Begets

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.279

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• 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.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Horse, Animal, Men

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1803). “The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays”, p.201

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• 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

  Beauty, Genius, Mediocrity

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.144

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• I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Sex, Married, Gender

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.143

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• Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Life, Weed, Flower

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2011). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.229, Cambridge University Press

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• Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Clarity, Wells

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.279

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• It's all been very interesting.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Interesting, Dying, Last Words

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• 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.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Blame, Virtue, Guides

  'The Plain Dealer' (27 April 1724) 'The Resolve'

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• I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Men, Ears, May

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• one would suffer a great deal to be happy.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Happiness, Suffering, Deals

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.280

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• Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

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  Sick, Wicked, Comfort

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Dallaway (1817). “The Works: I. Letters, during her residence abroad, 1746-1756”, p.151

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• Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.

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  Philosophy, Rose, Toil

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• I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.

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  Children, Disappointment, Mean

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.504, Everyman's Library

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Education, Children

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.49

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• Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Remember, Maxims

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• 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.

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  Romantic, Travel, Dull

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Turkish Embassy Letters”, p.115, Ravenio Books

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• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Fashion, Regret, Reading

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.43

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• The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

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  Wife, Good Wife, Ends

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.47

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• We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

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  Queens, Heart, Destiny

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.300

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• It's in no way my interest (according to the common acceptance of that word) to convince the world of their errors; that is, I shall get nothing from it but the private satisfaction of having done good to mankind, and I know nobody that reckons that satisfaction any part of their interest.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Acceptance, Errors, Done

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• Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Husband, Names, Two

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Turkish Embassy Letters”, p.27, Ravenio Books

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• A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Girl, World, Noise

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.294

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