Keeping Men Quotes by John Gay

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• Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
• Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
• There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
• But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
• O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
• A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery…
• The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
• Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
• An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
• I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
• Shadow owes its birth to light.
• On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

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