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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wifes spirits. – John Gay

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How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. – John Gay

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Daughters
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John Gay
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Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company. – John Gay

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Gambling (Gaming)
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John Gay
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Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love. – Billy Corgan

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You never know what movie I will be in next, but lets just hope its sells (for my sake at least)! – Cameron Diaz

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Hope

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together. – Jarvis Cocker

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy. – Italian Proverb

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you cant even think straight. – Marilyn French

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Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. – Woodrow Wilson

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People are so codified – its sad. – Jean Paul Gaultier

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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. – Edward Young, Night Thoughts

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