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Custom is the law of fools. - [Custom] Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading. - [Friendship] Love's like virtue, its own reward. - [Love] We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order. - [Aces] Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it. - Provoked Wife (act III) [Women] We're gaily yet, we're gaily yet, And we're not very fow, but we're gaily yet; Then set ye awhile, and tipple a bit, For we's not very fow, but we're gaily yet. - Provoked Wife (act III, sc. 2), Song--Colonel Bully [Drinking] A slighted woman knows no bounds. - The Mistake (pt. I, act II, sc. 1) [Women] Much of a muchness. - The Provoked Husband (act I, sc. 1) [Proverbial Phrases]
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