Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. -Richard Brinsley Sheridan

 

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.


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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

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Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

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Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

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