And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions. Margaret Cavendish Read Quote
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. Margaret Cavendish Read Quote
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. Margaret Cavendish Read Quote
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses. Margaret Cavendish Read Quote
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. Margaret Cavendish Read Quote
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. Margaret Cavendish Read Quote
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. Margaret Cavendish Read Quote
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. Margaret Cavendish Read Quote
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. Margaret Cavendish Read Quote
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. Margaret Cavendish Read Quote
