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Letter "J" » John Gay Quotes
«The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.»
«Where yet was ever found a mother, / Who'd give her booby for another?»
«O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed: By keeping men off, you keep them on»
«I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame»
«But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.»
«No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.»
«For on the rope that hangs my dear / Depends poor Polly's life.»
«Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, / And fires us / With courage, love and joy. / Women and wine should life employ. / Is there aught else on earth desirous?»
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