Margaret Cavendish

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

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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.

Margaret Cavendish

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