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

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

Mary Wortley Montagu
Book, Reading, Library
Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

Mary Wortley Montagu
Reading, Gardening, Amusement
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.376

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

Mary Wortley Montagu
Fashion, Regret, Reading
Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.43

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.

Mary Wortley Montagu
Reading, People, Pockets
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.262

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