More quotes by John Gay
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it.
I must have women—there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
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I think the Romans call it Stoicism.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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