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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
Librettist
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Barnstaple
Devon
Never
Beasts
Evident
Musicians
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Music
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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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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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Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.
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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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Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.
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I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
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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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Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
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The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.
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She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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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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O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
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Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.
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You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.
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