No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. — Lady Mary Wortley Montagu · Skopia

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

1753

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Montagu, Lady Mary Worley. Letter to the Countess of Bute. 28 Jan. 1753.

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