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Love for Love (1695)
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Aye, 'tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
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I warrant you, if he danced till doomsday, he thought I was to pay the piper.
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You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
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Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
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To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.
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Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.
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To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
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I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
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Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.
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A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
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Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.
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Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand.
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He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
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Has he not a rogue's face?…a hanging-look to me…has a damned Tyburn-face, without the benefit o' the Clergy.
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I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.
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A branch of one of your antediluvian families, fellows that the flood could not wash away.
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I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
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Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.
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I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
January 24, 1670
Died:
January 19, 1729
(aged 58)
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