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Quote Left We only part to meet again. Quote Right
Quote Left Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. Quote Right
Quote Left How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. Quote Right
Quote Left The brave love mercy, and delight to save. Quote Right
Quote Left Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them! Quote Right
Quote Left In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; the smallest speck is seen on snow Quote Right
Quote Left Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left 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? Quote Right
Quote Left Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. Quote Right
Quote Left But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out. Quote Right
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. Quote Right
Quote Left Shadow owes its birth to light. Quote Right
Quote Left Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. Quote Right
Quote Left Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. Quote Right
Quote Left The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. Quote Right
Quote Left I must have women -- there is nothing unbends the mind like them. Quote Right
Quote Left Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage! Quote Right
Quote Left No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat. Quote Right
Quote Left O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on. Quote Right
Quote Left Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.
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