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«In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; the smallest speck is seen on snow»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet) | About: Faults | Keywords: speck, specks
«Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: involve
«'While there is life, there's hope,' he cried; 'Then why such haste?' so groaned and died»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet) | About: Hate, Hope, Life | Keywords: groaned
«Corruption's not for modern date; It hath been tried in ev'ry state»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet)
«I know you lawyers can, with ease, twist words and meanings as you please»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet) | About: Law and lawyers | Keywords: meanings, twist
«Envy's a sharper spur than pay»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: sharper, spur
«What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet)
«Bring me a hundred reeds of decent growth,/ To make a pipe for my capacious mouth.»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: capacious, decent, pipe, reeds
«I must have women / there is nothing unbends the mind like them.»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: unbending, unbends, unbent
«She who has never loved has never lived.»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet)

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