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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.
— John Gay
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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.
— John Gay
Tags: grow, woman, fly, love
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
— John Gay
Tags: our, fools, praise, envy
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
— John Gay
Tags: those, nose, must, who
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
— John Gay
Tags: open, prove, curse, friend
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
— John Gay
Tags: he, rest, sweet, kiss
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