John Gay
British playwright and poet
Lived from: 1685 - 1732
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 30 june 1685 Died: 4 december 1732
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Shadow owes its birth to light.
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She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd.
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Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
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The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
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There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
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Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
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Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another.
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We only part to meet again.
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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.
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But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
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