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Charming women can true converts make,
We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
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There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
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I don't think matrimony consistent with the liberty of the subject.
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Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.
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Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.
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Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.
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Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.
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It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.
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Rise thou prostrate Ingineer, not all thy undermining Skill shall reach my Heart.
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Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave,
And only cowards dare affront a woman.
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Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.
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'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.
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Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.
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The reader may find some faults in this play, which my illness prevented the amending of; but there is great amends made in the representation, which cannot be match'd, no more than the friendly and indefatigable care of Mr. Wilks, to whom I chiefly owe the success of the play.
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I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
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A lady, if undressed at Church, looks silly,
One cannot be devout in dishabilly.
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How a little love and good company improves a woman!
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There's some diversion in a talking blockhead; and since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.
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Cos. Pray now, what may be that same bed of honour?
Kite. Oh, a mighty large bed! bigger by half than the great bed at Ware: ten thousand people may lie in it together, and never feel one another.
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Reason still keeps its throne, but it nods a little, that's all.
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I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
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'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad.—Anything for the good of one's country—I'm a Roman for that.
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Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst—…Words, words or I shall burst.
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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
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We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
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Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.
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I hate all that don't love me, and slight all that do.
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George Farquhar
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Born:
1677
Died:
April 29, 1707
(aged 30)
Bio:
George Farquhar was an Irish dramatist. He is noted for his contributions to late Restoration comedy, particularly for his plays The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux' Stratagem.
Known for:
The Recruiting Officer (1706)
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