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5 Quotes for 'Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' in the Database.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes
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Be pain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet.
Topic: Apparel
Source: Summary of Lord Littelton's Advice
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See how that pair of billing doves
With open murmurs own their loves
And, heedless of censorious eyes,
Pursue their unpolluted joys:
No fears of future want molest
The downy quiet of their nest.
Topic: Doves
Source: Written in a Garden (st. 1)
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The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry,
Portends strange things, old women say;
Stops every fool that passes by,
And frights the school-boy from his play.
Topic: Owls
Source: The Politicians (st. 4)
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Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;
The rage but not the talent to abuse.
Topic: Satire
Source: To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace, (Pope)
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'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.
Topic: Wealth
Source: None
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