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Schriftstellerin (England, 1689 - 1762).

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wäre heute 334 Jahre, 10 Monate, 21 Tage oder 122.316 Tage alt.

Geboren am 26.05.1689 in Pierrepont (London)
Gestorben am 21.08.1762 in Pierrepont (London)
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• Die Frucht, die vom Ast fällt, ohne daß man schütteln muß, ist mir zu weich.
  • Engagement
  • Erfolg
  • Ehrgeiz

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• Kein bescheidener Mann hat jemals ein Vermögen gemacht und wird jemals ein Vermögen machen.
  • Vermögen
  • Mann/Männer

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• Magengeschwüre bekommt man nicht von dem, was man ißt; man bekommt sie von dem, wovon man aufgefressen wird.

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• Männer erdulden alles, solange sie verliebt sind.

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• And we meet with champagne and a chicken at last.

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• As Ovid has sweetly in parable told, We harden like trees, and like rivers grow cold.

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• But the fruit that can fall without shaking, Indeed is too mellow for me.

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• Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

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• General notions are generally wrong.

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• In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key?

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• It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass (mirror). The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

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• Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide: In part she is to blame, who has been tried, He comes too near, that comes to be denied.

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

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• People wish their enemies dead-but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

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• Satire should, like a polished razor keen, / Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

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• Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest to hand.

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• This world consists of men, women, and Herveys.

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• We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

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• Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

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