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    All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

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    Angels listen when she speaks; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.

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    Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

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    Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

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    Custom does often reason overrule.

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    Dead we become the lumber of the world.

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    Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

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    Farewell, woman! I intend Henceforth every night to sit With my lewd, well-natured friend, Drinking to engender wit.

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    For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.

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    For Hell and the foul fiend that rules God's everlasting fiery jails (Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools), With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door, Are senseless stories, idle tales, Dreams, whimseys, and no more.

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    He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.

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    I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

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    If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.

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    I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.

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    I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

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    It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.

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    I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

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    Late children are early orphans.

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    Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

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    Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find

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    Man differs more from man than man from beast

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    Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

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    Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.

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    Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.

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    Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.

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    Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

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    The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

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    The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

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    Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose, And safe from action, valiantly advise; Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows, And being good for nothing else, be wise.

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    Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

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    To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.

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    A kind of losing loadum is their game, Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.

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    Bawdy in thoughts, precise in words, Ill-natured though a whore, Her belly is a bag of turds, And her cunt a common shore.

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    BOLLOXIMIAN: My pleasures for new cunts I will uphold, And have reserves of kindness for the old. I grant in absence dildo may be used With milk of goats, when once our seed’s infused. My prick no more to bald cunt shall resort— Merkins rub off, and often spoil the sport. POCKENELLO: Let merkin, sir, be banished from the court. PENE: 'Tis like a dead hedge when the land is poor.

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    How blest was the created state Of man and woman, ere they fell, Compared to our unhappy fate: We need not fear another hell.

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    Then, if to make your ruin more, You'll peevishly be coy, Die with the scandal of a whore And never know the joy.

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    This signior is sound, safe, ready, and dumb As ever was candle, carrot, or thumb; Then away with these nasty devices, and show How you rate the just merits of Signior Dildo.