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 MontaguMy chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
Mary Wortley MontaguAs I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
Mary Wortley MontaguAs marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.
Mary Wortley Montagu