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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 21 quotes by Margaret Cavendish Mary Lucas, older sister of Margaret Cavendish Segment from Frontispiece for several of her books in the 1650s and 1660s. The Blazing World Portrait Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 15 December 1673) was an English aristocrat, a prolific writer, and a scientist. Born Margaret Lucas, she was the youngest sister of prominent royalists Sir John Lucas and Sir Charles Lucas. She became an attendant of Queen Henrietta Maria... Read full biography of Margaret Cavendish → 1 2 Ctrl → 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... → 0 For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. 0 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... → 0 Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. 0 And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded... → 0 For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it... → 0 My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their... → 0 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... → 0 Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit. 0 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. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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