Lady Mary Wortley Montagu :
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.
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Mediocrity
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Genius
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Beauty
Gift it
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