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Go, go to your business, I say, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

— William Wycherley

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I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

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'Tis my maxim, he's a fool that marries; but he's a greater that does not marry a fool.

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And with faint praises one another damn.

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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

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