Margaret Cavendish - Sociable Letters

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But for the most part, women are not educated as they should be, I mean those of quality; oft their education is only to dance, sing, and fiddle, to write complimental letters, to read romances, to speak some languages that is not their native…their parents take more care of their feet than their head, more of their words than their reason.

Margaret Cavendish

The Marriage-bed proves the Grave of Love...

Margaret Cavendish

If Nature had not befriended us with beauty, and other good graces, to help us to insinuate our selves into men's affections, we should have been more enslaved than any other of Nature's creatures she hath made.

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The Difference betwixt a Wise man and a Fool is, that a Wise man carries his Happiness still Within him, and a Fool is alwayes Seeking it Without him, & seldom or never Meets it, the other never Seeks it, for he alwayes hath it...

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One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion...

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