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Charming women can true converts make,
We love the precepts for the teacher’s sake.

— George Farquhar The Constant Couple (1699)

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There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707)

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

I see you have a singing face — a heavy, dull, sonata face.

’T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad.

The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707)

I hate all that don’t love me, and slight all that do.

The Constant Couple (1699)

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