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John Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch.

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Quote Left Shadow owes its birth to light.
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Quote Left Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.
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Quote Left A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
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Quote Left I must have women -- there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
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Quote Left In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; the smallest speck is seen on snow
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