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If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet. Ernest Bevin		Tuesday Nov 04, 2025
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It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another. George Farquhar

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	George Farquhar
	George Farquhar (1677 or 1678 - April 29, 1707) was an Irish dramatist. He is noted for his contributions to late Restoration comedy, particularly for his plays The Recruiting Officer (1706) and The Beaux' Stratagem (1707). Read More

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Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

My Lady Bountiful.

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that Im sure it must be good.

Captain is a good traveling name, and so I take it.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.