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Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

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.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

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.

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.