Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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

  “The Lady’s Resolve” (1713)

  • Virtue

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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