No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Mary Wortley MontaguTags: reading
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
Mary Wortley MontaguI give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Mary Wortley MontaguPhilosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.
Mary Wortley MontaguTags: education learning philosophy feminism
None strive to know their proper merit
But strain for wisdom, beauty, spirit
And lose the praise that is their due
When they've the impossible in view
Civility costs nothing and buys everything
Mary Wortley MontaguNo entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
Mary Wortley MontaguIn short I will part with anything for you but you.
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