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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.»
«A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
«We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
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«General notions are generally wrong»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
«No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
«It goes far toward reconciling me to being a woman when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of marrying one»
«People earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession, I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
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«True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
«Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.»
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