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Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.


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Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

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Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Born: May 15, 1689
Died: August 21, 1762 (aged 73)
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