Susanna Centlivre Quotes

#1. I always lov'd Precaution, and took care to avoid Dangers. But when a thing was past, I ever had Philosophy to be easie.

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#2. A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it ...

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#3. Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of.

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#4. Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

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#5. Nobody can boast of Honesty till they are try'd.

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#6. Want is the mistress of invention

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#7. All policies allowed in war and love.

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#8. Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.

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#9. Lying is a thriving vocation.

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#10. My present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.

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#11. Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

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#12. It's my opinion every man cheats in his way, and he is only honest who of discovered.

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#13. TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.

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#14. And lash the vice and follies of the age.

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