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Praising all alike, is praising none.

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John Gay
Age: 47 †
Born: 1685
Born: June 30
Died: 1732
Died: December 4
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In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.
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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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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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To shoot at crows is powder flung away.
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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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Fair words cost nothing.
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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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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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O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
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Learning by study must be won 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.
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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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In beauty faults conspicuous grow The smallest speck is seen on snow.
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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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The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.
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Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.
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She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd.
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You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.
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Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
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Breathe soft, ye winds! ye waves, in silence sleep!
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