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John Gay
Age: 47 †
Born: 1685
Born: June 30
Died: 1732
Died: December 4
Librettist
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Barnstaple
Devon
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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.
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Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous?
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Some folks of cider make a rout And cider's well enough no doubt When better liquors fail But wine, that's richer, better still, Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will) Must yield to nappy ale
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?
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No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
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You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.
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The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew, With golden treasures load his little thighs, And steer his distant journey through the skies.
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Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.
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I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
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Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.
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The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
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Envy's a sharper spur than pay.
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What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.
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Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.
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To shoot at crows is powder flung away.
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The charge is prepared the lawyers are met The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd. For death is a debt, A debt on demand. So take what I owe.
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Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.
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A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much
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My lodging is on the cold ground, And hard, very hard, is my fare, But that which grieves me more Is the coldness of my dear.
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