English - Dramatist | 1652 - 1685
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Thomas Otway
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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
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Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.
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Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
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Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.
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No praying, it spoils business.
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