“Nature is indeed a specious ward, nay, there is a great deal in it if it is properly understood and applied, but I cannot bear to hear people using it to justify what common sense must disavow. Is not Nature modifed by art in many things? Was it not designed to be so? And is it not happy for human society that it is so? Would you like to see your husband let his beard grow, until he would be obliged to put the end of it in his pocket, because this beard is the gift of Nature?” PeopleIfsHumansArtEndsWould BeGrowsNatureNaturalDealsCommonBearsHusbandUnderstoodCommon SensePocketsJustifyObligedBeardNot HappyHuman SocietyYour Husband Author:Mary Wortley Montagu
“Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.” PeopleKnowsReadingStuffCommonOffersRefuseMiserablePocketsVersesAcquaintanceSnuff Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers
“It's in no way my interest (according to the common acceptance of that word) to convince the world of their errors; that is, I shall get nothing from it but the private satisfaction of having done good to mankind, and I know nobody that reckons that satisfaction any part of their interest.” KnowsWorldWayDoneInterestCommonMankindAcceptanceErrorsSatisfactionConvince Author:Mary Wortley Montagu
“It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.” ThinkingBeautifulParentCommonPlansErrorsParentingConsideringBuilderMisplaced Author:Mary Wortley Montagu
