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“each followed such a profession as was most proper for the nature of their Species, which the Empress encouraged them in, especially those that had applied themselves to the study of several Arts and Sciences; for they were as ingenious and witty in the invention of profitable and useful Arts, as we are in our world, nay, more; and to that end she erected Schools, and founded several Societies.”
― Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World

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“Phænomena's of Cœlestial Bodies”
― Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World

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“I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.”
― Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World

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“That this multitude of pores was the cause of the blackness of the Coal; for, said they, a body that has so many pores, from each of which no light is reflected, must necessarily look black, since black is nothing else but a privation of light, or a want of reflection.”
― Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World

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“But the Duchess's Soul being troubled, that her dear Lord and Husband used such a violent exercise before meat, for fear of overheating himself, without any consideration of the Empress's Soul, left her Æreal Vehicle, and entred into her Lord. The Empress's Soul perceiving this, did the like: And then the Duke had three Souls in one Body; and had there been some such Souls more, the Duke would have been like the Grand-Signior in his Seraglio, onely it would have been a Platonick Seraglio.”
― Margaret Cavendish, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World

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