Mary Wortley Montagu

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    Life is too short for a long story.
    —Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)

    Life is too short for a long story.
    —Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)

    We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses’ instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.
    Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)