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

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Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

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Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.

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I have too much indulged my sedentary humour and have been a rake in reading.
Letter to her daughter Lady Bute, 11 April 1759

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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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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