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Do you think a woman's silence can be natural?
Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
One may like the love and despise the lover.
I have told my passion, my eyes have spoke it, my tongue pronounced it, and my pen declared it; I have sighed it, wrote it, and subscribed it, now my heart is full of you, my head raves of you and my hand writes to you but all in vain.
'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.
Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.
Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.
Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.
We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.
'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.
Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.
I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage
an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.
When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.
How a little love and good company improves a woman.
Spare all I have, and take my life.
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.
Those who know the least obey the best.
I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.
Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave,
And only cowards dare affront a woman.
Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.
