"General notions are generally wrong."

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Source : Letter to her husband Edward Wortley Montagu, 28 March 1710, in Robert Halsband (ed.) 'The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' vol. 1 (1965) p. 24

Mary Wortley Montagu

“Scobe's Fifth Law: All dealers wish they were doing something other than dealing. All dealers have plans to get out of dealing. Ten years later they have different plans to get out of dealing.”
“Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.”
“I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.”
“A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.”
“There are many films I would happily spend two hours with, not so many I would spend two years with. I need to be obsessed about films, because the way I work, that means two years without sleeping at all, and losing part of your life. I need to put all of my energy and heart and soul and bones and blood and skin and muscles in the things that I do.”
“The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.”

Source : "Attitude Is Everything" by Rita Schiano, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.
“There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.”

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