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John Gay

John Gay

John Gay föddes den 30 juni 1685 och dog den 4 december 1732 - brittisk författare.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, the mist is dispelled when a woman appears

'Tis woman that seduces all mankind, / By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

If with me you'll fondly stray, / Over the hills and far away.

What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

She who has never loved has never lived.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self

In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; the smallest speck is seen on snow

When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction

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We only part to meet again.

You'd have an instant decade-long waiting line.

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