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All men would be cowards if they could.

Then, if to make your ruin more,
You'll peevishly be coy,
Die with the scandal of a whore
And never know the joy.

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.

Born to myself, I like myself alone.

A kind of losing loadum is their game,
Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.

Man differs more from man than man from beast

Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

Love, the most generous passion of the mind
The softest refuge innocence can find

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst:
And Honesty's against all common Sense.

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,
From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

Angels listen when she speaks; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.

Any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense

Bawdy in thoughts, precise in words,
Ill-natured though a whore,
Her belly is a bag of turds,
And her cunt a common shore.

How blest was the created state
Of man and woman, ere they fell,
Compared to our unhappy fate:
We need not fear another hell.

Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.

Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.

Cupid and Bacchus my saints are,
May drink and love still reign,
With wine I wash away my cares,
And then to cunt again.

Merely for safety, after fame we thirst,
For all men would be cowards if they durst.

Custom does often reason overrule.

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

Late children are early orphans.

The entire piece has been devised with the French in mind. In France, fornication in the streets with total strangers is *compulsory*.

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

Farewell, woman! I intend
Henceforth every night to sit
With my lewd, well-natured friend,
Drinking to engender wit.

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves.
The Difference lies, as far as I can see,
Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

God bless our good and gracious King,
Whose promise none relies on;
Who never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one.