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• Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.
• We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
• Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.
• The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.
• Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the…
• A weak invention of the Enemy.
• Possession is eleven points in the law.
• Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
• Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.
• Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell…
• Losers must have leave to speak.
• I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still…

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