George Farquhar
Quotes by George Farquhar
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We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
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Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.
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Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
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There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
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Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teachers sake.
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Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks: Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks. The founders you: the table is this place: The carvers we: the prologue is the grace. Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.
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How a little love and good company improves a woman!
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