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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
Friends and Friendship
John Gay

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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
Coward and Cowardice
John Gay

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Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
John Gay

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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
Envy
John Gay

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I must have women -- there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
Men and Women
John Gay

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No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
Victory
John Gay

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No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die whove no retreat.
Uncategorised
John Gay

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O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
Flirting
John Gay

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Shadow owes its birth to light.
Night
John Gay

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Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
Men and Women
John Gay

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The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
Courage
John Gay

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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
Widowhood
John Gay

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There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
Dependence
John Gay

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Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
Intervention
John Gay

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We only part to meet again.
Farewells
John Gay

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun