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“...that in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age do think their forefathers have been fools, by which they prove themselves to be such.”
― Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World and Other Writings

tags: fools, reality, wishful-thinking

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“At which the Emperor rejoycing, made her his Wife, and gave her an absolute power to rule and govern all that World as she pleased.”
― Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World

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“there is little difference between man and beast, but what ambition and glory makes.”
― Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

tags: feminism

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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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“Besides, we shall want employments for our senses, and subjects for arguments; for were there nothing but truth, and no falsehood, there would be no occasion for to dispute, and by this means we should want the aim and pleasure of our endeavours in confuting and contradicting each other; neither would one man be thought wiser than another, but all would either be alike knowing and wise, or all would be fools...”
― Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World and Other Writings

tags: debates, sense, truth

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