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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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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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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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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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Fair words cost nothing.
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The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
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She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd.
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[Gulliver was soon being read] from the cabinet council to the nursery.
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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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I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
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No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
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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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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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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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Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother Wits are gamecocks to one another.
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If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.
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Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.
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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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