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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.

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General notions are generally wrong.

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

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

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

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The road to success is always under construction

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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

- Paulo Coelho

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You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

- Judith Guest

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You cannot wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

- Oscar Levant

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