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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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In short I will part with anything for you but you. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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