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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.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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

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My interest is not in the capture of power, but in the control of power by the people.

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Everything you can imagine is real.

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Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it's letting go.

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The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

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Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

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