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He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold? ”
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. ”
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business. ”
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one. ”
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. ”
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. ”
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future. ”
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. ”
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. ”
The things which I have seen I now can see no more. ”