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
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More Quotes By Margaret Cavendish
  1. ...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.

  2. ...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other...

  3. There is little difference between man and beast, but what ambition and glory makes.

  4. I am not covetous, but as ambitious as ever any of my sex was, is, or can be; which makes, that though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second, yet I endeavour to be Margaret the First; and although I have neither...

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