English - Writer | May 26, 1689 - August 21, 1762
Solitude begets whimsies.
Mary Wortley Montagu
SolitudeBegets
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.
TrustTemptationNobodyVirtueNever
Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
CivilityNothingEverythingCosts
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
EducationGoodWifeEndYouYour
Life is too short for a long story.
LifeLife Is Too ShortStoryShort
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.
ReligionWorldSickLaughGiving
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
FriendPeaceMindOffendedFarewell
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
LifeHappinessIgnoranceYouthPay
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.
RomanticNewSaidSayCircumstances
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.
TimeMeImpossibleSpeakLaughYou
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
ManWillFortuneMakeModestDid
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.
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