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1. "Civility costs nothing, and buys everything." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
2. "While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
3. "Life is too short for a long story." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
4. "I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
5. "The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
6. "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." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
7. "In short I will part with anything for you but you." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
8. "We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
9. "Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
10. "Solitude begets whimsies." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
11. "I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
12. "No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
13. "No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
14. "We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
15. "I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
16. "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." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
17. "Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu

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