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NOVELISTS > author > Mary Wortley Montagu
We are educated...
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We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses' instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.
Source: Letter, 10 Oct. 1753, 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.