"As love is the most noble and divine……" — Aphra Behn
"As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy."
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28 Quotes by Aphra Behn
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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Variety is the soul of pleasure.
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That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good…
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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
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There is no sinner like a young saint.
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Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
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Come away; poverty's catching.
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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
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Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.
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Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.
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'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true: Oh…
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