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MRS. APHRA (AFRA OR APHARA OR AYFARA) JOHNSON BEHN
English playwright, poet and novelist
(1640 - 1689)

Come away; poverty's catching.
      - [Poverty]

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
      - [Love]

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
      - [Love]

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
      - [Money]

Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir.
      - [Patience]

If things on earth may be to heaven resembled,
  It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
      - And Forgive Us Our Trespasses [Love]

Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe.
      - Comedy of the Rounded Heads (act I, sc. 2)
        [Government]

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