“We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.”
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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“Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.”
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Author: Mary Wortley Montagu
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“While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.”
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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“Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.”
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Author: Mary Wortley Montagu
Category: trust
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