Thomas Otway
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"Thomas Otway" was an England/English dramatist of the English Restoration/Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd (1682).

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.

Children blessings seem, but torments are;/ When young, our folly, and when old our fear.

No praying, it spoils business.

Honest men are the soft, easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.