People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. - Mary Wortley Montagu
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
- Mary Wortley Montagu
General notions are generally wrong. - Mary Wortley Montagu
General notions are generally wrong.
True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words. - Mary Wortley Montagu
True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. - Mary Wortley Montagu
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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 know… - Mary Wortley 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 know…
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise. - Mary Wortley Montagu
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. - Mary Wortley Montagu
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself. - Mary Wortley Montagu
You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
In short I will part with anything for you but you. - Mary Wortley Montagu
In short I will part with anything for you but you.
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