The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
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Source: Elämänmenoa Kultaisessa sarvessa
“Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.”
Source: The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers
“People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!”
“Forgive what you can't excuse.”
Source: The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
“Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.”
Source: The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
“one would suffer a great deal to be happy.”
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.”
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“One can never outlive one's vanity.”
Source: The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.”
Source: The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.”
Source: Turkish Embassy Letters
“people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.”
Source: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
“I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.”
Source: Essays and Poems and Simplicity, a Comedy
“Men are vile inconstant toads.”
Source: 1708-1720
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.”
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
Source: Letters
Source: Selected Letters
Source: Letters