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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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There are times when sorrow seems the only truth.

- Oscar Wilde

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

- Ann Landers

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I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.

- Anonymous

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

- Maya Angelou

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The strongest evidence of love is sacrifice.

- Caroline Fry

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