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'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the ed...  
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at...  
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a ...   Anger
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of bein...  
I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.  
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others b...  
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.  
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks ...  
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brow...  
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to for...   Forgiveness
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend ...  
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.  
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been love...   Love
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, ...  
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdere...  
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insip...