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Shadow owes its birth to light. - John Gay

Shadow owes its birth to light. – 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

Category:
Professionalism
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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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Other Quotes from
Night, Nighttime
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel. – Samuel Johnson

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Night, Nighttime

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. – Djuna Barnes

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Night, Nighttime

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame! – William Shakespeare

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Night, Nighttime

And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Night, Nighttime

Random Quotes

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of ones self to others. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Category:
Generosity

If a movie isnt a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy. – Roger Ebert

Category:
teen

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. – Michel de Montaigne

Category:
Hypocrisy

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. – E. M. Forster

Category:
Ritual, Ceremony