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Quotes by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

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General notions are generally wrong.

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Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

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

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… 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.

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