English - Writer | 1623 - December 15, 1673
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
Margaret Cavendish
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But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.
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Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.
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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
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Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
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For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
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Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.
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Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
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First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.
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For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
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And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
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My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.
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