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To friendship every burden's light.

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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
Burden
Friendship
Friends
Light
Every

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Fair words cost nothing.
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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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Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.
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No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
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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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Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.
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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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In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.
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Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.
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She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd.
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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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I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
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Man may escape from rope and gun Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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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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Learning by study must be won 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.
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Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
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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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