"We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If……" — Mary Wortley Montagu
"We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic."
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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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More Anything New Quotes
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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me…
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We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of…
— Johannes Brahms
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If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never…
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If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.
— Jeff Bezos
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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything…
— Charles Kettering
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We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
— Burt Rutan
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There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since,…
— Flannery O'Connor
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It is false to speak of realisation. What is there to realise? The real is as it is always. We…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.
— Shigeru Ban
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You cannot bring anything new into your life until you are grateful for what you have now.
— Michael Beckwith
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My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut…
— Joao Magueijo
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