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This is brave Bear-Garden language!

— Jeremy Collier A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698)

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Note: See John Ray for explanation of Bear Garden.

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A poet's mind should be clear and unsullied; and the muses being virgins, their performances should agree with their condition.

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Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper, — balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.

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Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

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By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with past ages.

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Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

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