John Vanbrugh Quotes

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• Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
• Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
• 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…
• Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
• A slighted woman knows no bounds.
• 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.
• When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
• Love, like virtue, is its own reward.
• The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
• Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
• If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
• Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.
• 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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