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Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes about Pleasure

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

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

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.346

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.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1825). “The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers”, p.419

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

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.318