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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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Civility
Fairs
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Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.
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Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.
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Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
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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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Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.
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A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much
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Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.
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Praising all alike, is praising none.
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To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let Nature guide thee sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.
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Envy's a sharper spur than pay.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise With health all taste of pleasure flies.
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The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
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You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.
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Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health.
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Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother Wits are gamecocks to one another.
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Learning by study must be won 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.
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Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
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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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Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?
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