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Mary Wortley Montagu

"People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed."

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"People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed."

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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."

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"But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man."

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"The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard."
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