English - Poet | June 30, 1685 - December 4, 1732
The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
John Gay
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Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
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But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
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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.
MoneyWifeEarthTrueOutTake
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
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On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
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She who has never loved has never lived.
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