"Civility costs nothing, and buys everything." — Mary Wortley Montagu
"Civility costs nothing, and buys everything."
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Mary Wortley Montagu
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69 Quotes by Mary Wortley Montagu
Mary Wortley Montagu has 69 quotes on this site.
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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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Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
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The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going…
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No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
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When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he…
— Milton Friedman
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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.
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Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.
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Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private…
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I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I…
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