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John Gay (30 June 1685 - 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names

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

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

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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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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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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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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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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

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

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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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We only part to meet again.

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