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Want is the mistress of invention

Susanna Centlivre

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Susanna Centlivre
Age: 56 †
Born: 1667
Born: January 1
Died: 1723
Died: December 1
Actor
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Whaplode
Lincolnshire
Susanna Freeman
Susanna Carroll
Mistress
Invention

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TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.
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Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.
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my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days when they are empty, I keep him three Months.
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Nobody can boast of Honesty till they are try'd.
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Lying is a thriving Vocation.
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Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.
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Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.
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All policies allowed in war and love.
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Look-ye, 'tis my Opinion, ev'ry Man cheats in his Way. And he is only honest, who is not discover'd.
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