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«When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet) | About: Fiction | Keywords: contradiction, prompts
«Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: devils, highwayman, whores, wives
«'Tis woman that seduces all mankind, / By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.»
«A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.»
«O ruddier than the cherry, / O sweeter than the berry, / O nymph more bright / Than moonshine night, / Like kidlings blithe and merry.»
«To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet) | About: Cheating, Men and Women | Keywords: cheats
«If with me you'll fondly stray, / Over the hills and far away.»
«How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.»
«What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet) | About: Jealousy | Keywords: dictates, frenzy
«Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: scorn

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