Mary Worley Montagu Quotes

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

- Mary Worley Montagu

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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. - Mary Worley Montagu

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. - Mary Worley Montagu