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Brief author info: Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) English letter writer and poet.

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People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

Mary Wortley Montagu

General notions are generally wrong.

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... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

Mary Wortley Montagu

... the knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

Mary Wortley Montagu

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

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Relationship Quote

A man keeps another's secret better than he does his own. A woman, on the other hand, keeps her own better than another's.

- Jean de La Bruyere

Strength Quote

Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it's letting go.

- Sylvia Robinson

Friendship Quote

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

- Mary Richards

Happiness Quote

Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn't cost anything.

- Oscar Wilde

Wisdom Quote

Before God we are all equally wise-equally foolish.

- Albert Einstein

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