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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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• Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Reading, People, Pockets

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1825). “The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers”, p.262

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• [On her political writings:] It is, I confess, very possible that these my Labours may only be destined to line Trunks, or preserve roast Meat from too fierce a Fire; yet in that Shape I shall be useful to my Country.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Country, Writing, Fire

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• How many thousands ... earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession -- I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Real, Mean, Blessing

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.301

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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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