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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.

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

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People only see what they are prepared to see.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

- Marilyn Monroe

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

- Maya Angelou

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

- Mae West

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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