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