People Quotes by Elizabeth Montagu

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I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little…

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Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.

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Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and…

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It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges,…

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Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of…

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I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of…

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I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

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The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.

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You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.

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The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

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Our collection of men is very antique, they stand in my list thus: A man of sense, a little rusty, a beau a good deal the worse for wearing, a coxcomb extremely shattered, a pretty gentleman very insipid, a baronet very solemn, a squire very fat, a fop much affected, a barrister learned in Coke upon Littleton, but who knows…

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