"It is the common error of builders and……" — Mary Wortley Montagu
"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."
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Mary Wortley Montagu
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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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