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Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his broth

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

Other quotes by John Gay

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

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Love
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Other Quotes from
Professionalism
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There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause. – Herbert Marshall

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Professionalism

A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects. – Martin H. Fisher

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Professionalism

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. – Felix Frankfurter

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Professionalism

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and its charming. – Edgar Degas

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Professionalism

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We are a very crafty family. – Tori Spelling

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If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. – John Harrison

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gardening

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them. – Plutarch

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Breastfeeding

The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace. – Arabic Proverb

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Silence