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Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “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.”

51. “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

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.”

52. “Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.”

53. “My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.”

54. “The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.”

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Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.”

55. “The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.”

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Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies; I no longer read anything but novels.”

56. “Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies; I no longer read anything but novels.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.”

57. “It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.”

58. “The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.”

59. “A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.”

60. “No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.”

61. “Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.”

62. “Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.”

63. “As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.”

64. “I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.”

65. “Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.”

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Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.”

66. “Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest.”

67. “See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “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.”

68. “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

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.”

69. “I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.”

70. “It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “The pious farmer, who ne’er misses pray’rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav’n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign’d, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.”

71. “The pious farmer, who ne’er misses pray’rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav’n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign’d, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.”

72. “A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.”

73. “My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.”

74. “Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu Quote: “We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.”

75. “We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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