Preface to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s letters (1724) [ People / Practices ]
… let this attend them, in testimony to posterity, that among her contemporaries, one woman, at least, was just to her merit. There is not any thing so excellent, but some will carp at it; and the (sic) rather, because of its excellency. … places, where virtuous women never come. Let the men malign one another, if they think fit, and strive to pull down merit, when they cannot equal it. Let us be better natured, than to give way to any unkind or disrespectful thought of …
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