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Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.

John Gay

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John Gay
Age: 47 †
Born: 1685
Born: June 30
Died: 1732
Died: December 4
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Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!
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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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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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To shoot at crows is powder flung away.
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No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
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In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.
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O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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I cannot raise my worth too high Of what vast consequence am I! Not of the importance you suppose, Replies a Flea upon his nose Be humble, learn thyself to scan Know, pride was never made for man.
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Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No the dead know it not, nor profit gain It only serves to prove the living vain.
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She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd.
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Fair words cost nothing.
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In beauty faults conspicuous grow The smallest speck is seen on snow.
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Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
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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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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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If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.
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