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NOVELISTS > author > Mary Wortley Montagu
Take back the...
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Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.
Source: Letter, 21 Aug. 1709 (published in Selected Letters, ed. by Robert Halsband, 1970).
-- Mary Wortley Montagu, (May 26 1689-1762), English author; She wrote witty, descriptive letters of Middle Eastern life.