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NOVELISTS > author > Mary Wortley Montagu
People commonly educate...
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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.
Source: Letter, 19 Feb. 1750, to her daughter Lady Bute; 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.