"'Twas for the good of my country that……" — George Farquhar
"'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that."
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George Farquhar
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27 Quotes by George Farquhar
George Farquhar has 27 quotes on this site.
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There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
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I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
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How a little love and good company improves a woman.
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Necessity, the mother of invention.
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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
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Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
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Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid…
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I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
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Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you;…
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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
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Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so…
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More Abroad Quotes
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one of 501 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
— Saint Augustine
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
— Alec Baldwin
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for…
— Bill Bryson
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
— Samuel Butler
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The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a…
— Tucker Carlson
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly…
— William Ellery Channing
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own…
— Winston Churchill
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to…
— Kofi Annan
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We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it…
— Edward Kennedy
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