Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it.

John Gay

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My Own Epitaph
Life's a jest, and all things show it.
I thought so once, and now I know it.

John Gay

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MRS. PEACHUM
How the mother is to be pitied who has handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars and lectures of morality are nothing to them – they break through them all.

John Gay

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Love is so whimsical in both sexes that it is impossible to be lasting. But my heart is particular and contradicts my own observation.

John Gay

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Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.

John Gay

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A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much

John Gay

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Gulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

John Gay

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