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«Only a mother knows a mother's fondness»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
| Keywords:
fondness
«I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it»
«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.»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
| About:
Ignorance,
Youth
| Keywords:
companion, Companion of, groundless, invaluable, lively, sanguine
«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.»
«Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
| About:
Self-esteem
| Keywords:
agreeableness, bestow, constancy, recommend, take back
«'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.»
«We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
| Keywords:
agents, free agent, Free agents, knave, Queen of, the Queen, victoriously
«The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes»
«I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a d?gout given by satiety.»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
«But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
| Keywords:
shaking
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