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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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Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another. – John Gay

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Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me. – William Shakespeare

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

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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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