"Advice is free: The right answer will cost…" — Mary Wortley Montagu
"Advice is free: The right answer will cost plenty"
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69 Quotes by Mary Wortley Montagu
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It has all been most interesting.
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Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret…
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The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what…
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I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who…
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A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
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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…
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Solitude begets whimsies.
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You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
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But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.
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As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.
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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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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
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