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“It's my opinion every man cheats in his way, and he is only honest who of discovered.”
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Susanna Centlivre
#Cheating Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Way Quotes
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“a Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it ...”
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Susanna Centlivre
Source : Susanna Centlivre (1872). “Love's contrivance. Busy body. Marplot. Platonick lady. Perplex'd lovers. Cruel gift”, p.63
#Thinking Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Unhappy Quotes
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“my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.”
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Susanna Centlivre
Source : Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.97
#Patient Quotes
#Empty Quotes
#Profession Quotes
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“Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.”
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Susanna Centlivre
Source : Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.357
#Courage Quotes
#Resolve Quotes
#Cheerfulness Quotes
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“And lash the vice and follies of the age.”
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Susanna Centlivre
Source : Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The Dramatic Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre: The wonder. The man bewitch'd Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.79
#Age Quotes
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“All policies allowed in war and love.”
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Susanna Centlivre
#War Quotes
#Policy Quotes
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“Nobody can boast of Honesty till they are try'd.”
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Susanna Centlivre
Source : Susanna Centlivre (1760). “The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre ...: Love's contrivance. Busy body. Marplot in Lisbon. Platonic lady. Perplexed lovers. Cruel gift”, p.282
#Honesty Quotes
#Boast Quotes
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“Lying is a thriving Vocation.”
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Susanna Centlivre
Source : Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre ...: The life of the author. Perjur'd husband. Beaux's duel. Gamester. Basset table. Love at a venture. Stolen heiress”, p.159
#Lying Quotes
#Vocation Quotes
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“Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.”
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Susanna Centlivre
Source : Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The perjur'd husband. The beau's duel. The gamester. The basset-table. Love at a venture. The stolen heiress”, p.205
#Age Quotes
#Youth Quotes
#Pleasure Quotes
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“Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.”
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Susanna Centlivre
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“TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.”
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Susanna Centlivre
#Women Quotes
#Light Quotes
#Yesterday Quotes
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“Want is the mistress of invention”
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Susanna Centlivre
Source : Susanna Centlivre (1746). “The Busie Body. A comedy ... The fifth edition”, p.9
#Mistress Quotes
#Want Quotes
#Invention Quotes
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“Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of.”
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Susanna Centlivre
#Reputation Quotes
#Ill Quotes
