Aphra Behn Quotes

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• Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
• Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
• Variety is the soul of pleasure.
• That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
• Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
• There is no sinner like a young saint.
• Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
• Come away; poverty's catching.
• Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
• Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.
• Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.
• 'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true: Oh how I strove the rest…
• One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
• Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.
• 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…
• No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
• All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom...…
• Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that…
• Jealousy, the old worm that bites.
• A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

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