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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 3840 |
| AUTHOR: | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) |
| QUOTATION: | Let this great maxim be my virtue’s guide,— In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Lady’s Resolve. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| Note 1. A fugitive piece, written on a window by Lady Montagu, after her marriage (1713). See Overbury, Quotation 1. [back] |
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