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• I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Lying, Perfect, Looks

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.183

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• My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Break Out, Lace, Illness

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• people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Writing, People, Indifference

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.146

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• I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Laughter, Company, Fellows

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1993). “Essays and Poems and Simplicity, a Comedy”, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Country, Mountain, Most Romantic

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