Margaret Cavendish

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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These are some quotes by English author Margaret Cavendish Writer, who lived between 1623 and 1673.

Quotes by Margaret Cavendish

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

Margaret Cavendish

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As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

Margaret Cavendish

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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 what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

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