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Those who in quarrels interpose,

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
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Fill it up. I take

Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.
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An open foe may prove

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
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Lions, wolves, and vultures don't

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
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How the mother is to

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.
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Can you support the expense

Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?
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Through all the employments of

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.
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But his kiss was so

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
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A fox may steal your

A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Sir, your wife may steal your rest, Sir, a thief your goods and plate. But this is all but picking, with rest, pence, chest and chicken; it ever was decreed, Sir, if lawyer's hand is feed, Sir, he steals your whole estate.
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Do you think your mother

Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!
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