“Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.”

John Gay
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“No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die whove no retreat.”

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“Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.”

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“The brave love mercy, and delight to save.”

John Gay
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“The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife’s spirits.”

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“No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who’ve no retreat.”

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“Shadow owes its birth to light.”

John Gay
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“Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!”

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“I must have women — there is nothing unbends the mind like them.”

John Gay
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“Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.”

John Gay
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“Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.”

John Gay
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“An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.”

John Gay
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“O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.”

John Gay
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“We only part to meet again.”

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“Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.”

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“There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one’s self.”

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Submitted by Quonation |Category: General