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

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I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise...

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My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

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It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

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As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

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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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