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Results of search for Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Page 1 of 1
Showing results 1 to 8 of 8 total quotations found.

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

It has all been very interesting.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762), last words, 1762
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)

Results from Poor Man's College:

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)

Results from Internet Collections: Quotations by Women:

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)

Results from Contributed Quotations:

The idle mind will sometimes fall into contemplations that serve for nothing but to ruin the health, destroy good humour, hasten old age and wrinkles, and bring on an habitual melancholy. 'Tis a maxim with me to be young as long as one can: 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 make all the happiness of life. To my extreme mortification I grow wiser every day...
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
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