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A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the wo

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. – John Gay

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. – John Gay

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Love
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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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Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls. – Henry David Thoreau

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The ability to sign a check is the least reliable guide to a companys fitness. – David Plowright

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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. – G. K. Chesterton

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Beware of men who cry. Its true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own. – Nora Ephron

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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. – Alan Perlis

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Id like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse. – Susie Orbach

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