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«Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.»
«All in the Downs the fleet was moored, / The streamers waving in the wind, / When black-eyed Susan came aboard.»
«Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outliv'd the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill»
Author: John Gay
(Dramatist, Poet)
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basilisk, escape from, nay, pill, rope, The Doctor, undone
«Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.»
«Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?»
«I rage, I melt, I burn, / The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart.»
«One wife is too much for most husbands to hear, / But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.»
«Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil/ O'er books consumed the midnight oil?»
«Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!»
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