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• Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
• I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
• Necessity, mother of invention.
• Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
• Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
• Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
• Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they…
• A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
• Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
• A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
• But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman…
• Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

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