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If Nature had not befriended us with beauty, and other good graces, to help us to insinuate our selves into men’s affections, we should have been more enslaved than any other of Nature’s creatures she hath made.

— Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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Riches is not what we have, but what we enjoy.

If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,
They must in quantity of Matter all agree.

Betwixt two ridges of ploughed land sat Wat,
Whose body, pressed to th’earth, lay close and squat.
His nose upon his two fore-feet close lies,
Glaring obliquely with his great grey eyes.

Then every nose was busily employed,
And every nostril was set open wide,
And every head did seek a several way
To find the grass or track where the scent lay.
For witty industry is never slack;
’Tis like to witchcraft, and brings lost things back.

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