So some Men are so happy in their Language and Delivery, that it beautifies and adorns their Wit; without which, it would be like an unpolished Diamond. But great is the difference: for, to create a Fancy, is to be like a God; but to make neat and new Words, is to be like a Taylor.


SourceCavendish, Margaret. The World’s Olio. 2nd ed., A. Maxwell, 1671.

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