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A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. - [Feeling] Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers. - prologue to Sheridan's "School for Scandal" [Journalism] Fun gives you a forcible hug, and shakes laughter out of you, whether you will or no. - [Mirth] Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talked like poor Poll. - [Epitaphs] I've that within for which there are no plasters. - in prologue to Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer" [Sickness] Prologues precede the piece in mournful verse, As undertakers walk before the hearse. - Apprentice (prologue) [Acting] Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks. - Epigram on Goldsmith's Retaliation [Cookery] Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. - Epilogue on Quitting the Stage [Kindness] Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind. - Epilogue to Edward Moore's Gamester [Cards] Hearts of oak are are ships, Hearts of oak are our men. - Hearts of Oak, another version [Navy] Hearts of oak are our ships, Jolly tars are our men, We always are ready, boys, steady, We'll fight and will conquer again and again. - Hearts of Oak [England] Hearts of oak are our ships, Gallant tars are our men. - Hearts of Oak [Navy] Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run. - On the Death of Henry Pelham [Sun] Shake off the shackles of this tyrant vice; Hear other calls than those of cards and dice: Be learn'd in nobler arts than arts of play; And other debts than those of honour pay. - Prolgue to Edward Moore's Gamester [Gambling] Prologues like compliments are loss of time; 'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme. - Prologue to Crisp's Tragedy of Virginia [Acting] Our Quixote bard sets out a monster taming. Arm'd at all points to fight that hydra, gaming. - Prologue to Edward Moore's Gamester [Gambling] Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. - Prologue to Edward Moore's Gamesters [Slavery] You are of the society of the wits and railers; . . . the surest sign is, you are an enemy to marriage, the common butt of every railer. - The Country Girl (act II, 1), play taken from Wycherly's "Country Wife" [Matrimony]
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