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• Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Powerful, Farewell, Justice

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• Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Thinking, People, Prudent

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1967). “1708-1720”

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• A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

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  Stupid, Silly, Passion

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.207

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• The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

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  Numbers, Chiefs, Distinction

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.42

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• Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies; I no longer read anything but novels.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Lying, Historical, Taught

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• Civility cost nothing.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Cost, Civility

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• Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Temptation, Firsts, Virtue

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.524, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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• There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

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  Ignorance, Vanity, Pay

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.197

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• I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Love, Broken Heart, Infidelity

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• It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Being A Woman, Danger, Matrimony

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• As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Funny, Witty, Children

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Turkish Embassy Letters”, p.162, Ravenio Books

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• The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

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  Sex, Passion, Knowledge

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1825). “The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers”, p.375

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• Men are vile inconstant toads.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Men, Toads

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1967). “1708-1720”

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• Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Mother, Knows, Fondness

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• Nature is indeed a specious ward, nay, there is a great deal in it if it is properly understood and applied, but I cannot bear to hear people using it to justify what common sense must disavow. Is not Nature modifed by art in many things? Was it not designed to be so? And is it not happy for human society that it is so? Would you like to see your husband let his beard grow, until he would be obliged to put the end of it in his pocket, because this beard is the gift of Nature?

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Art, Nature, Husband

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• Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Fate, Dull, Offensive

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1825). “The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers”, p.541

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• And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.

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  Wine, Lasts, Chickens

  'Six Town Eclogues' (1747) 'The Lover' l. 25

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• We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Philosopher, Moral, Poet

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• As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

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  Childhood, Age, Pleasure

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.318

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• Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.

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  Passion, Mind, Faces

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

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• 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

  Beautiful, Parenting, Thinking

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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.

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  Flirty, Flirting, Laughing

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.20

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• ... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

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  Fashion, Naked, Would Be

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Turkish Embassy Letters”, p.65, Ravenio Books

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• The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  School, Boys, Play

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “The Politicians”

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• 'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Power, May, Riches

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.114, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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