Mary Wortley

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    There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
    Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

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