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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

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.

Mary Wortley Montagu
Pain, Real, Grief
Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.50

I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

Mary Wortley Montagu
Laughter, Company, Fellows
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1993). “Essays and Poems and Simplicity, a Comedy”, Oxford University Press on Demand

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

Mary Wortley Montagu
Writing, People, Indifference
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.146

My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

Mary Wortley Montagu
Break Out, Lace, Illness

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

Mary Wortley Montagu
Country, Mountain, Most Romantic

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