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

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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Montagu presents reading as unusually durable entertainment: inexpensive, repeatable, private, and capable of widening a person’s intellectual world.

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Letter discussing education and reading, preserved in collections of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s correspondence.

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