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Shadow owes its birth to light.

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We only part to meet again.

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

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Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

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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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I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

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Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

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A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: June 30th, 1685

Died: December 4th, 1732

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