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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand


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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.



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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.



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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.



He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.



'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.



Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.



Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.



Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.



In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.



Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.

Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.





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