John Vanbrugh quotes:
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A slighted woman knows no bounds.
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Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
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Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written.
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You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.
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We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.
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Custom is the law of fools.
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Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.
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Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
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Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.
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Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
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Love's like virtue, its own reward.
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Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
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True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.
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We're gaily yet, we're gaily yet, And we're not very fow, but we're gaily yet; Then set ye awhile, and tipple a bit, For we's not very fow, but we're gaily yet.
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When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
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As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.
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He laughs best who laughs last.
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Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.
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No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.
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If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
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The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
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Love, like virtue, is its own reward.