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As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action. - [Wit] Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court. - [Argument] Ceremony and great professing renders friendships as much suspected as it does religion. - [Friendship] Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable. - [Virtue] Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation. - [Sympathy] Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses. - [Grief] Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men. - [Money] Necessity, mother of invention. - [Invention] Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other. - [Poets] Temperance is the nurse of chastity. - [Temperance] Wit has as few true judges as painting. - [Wit] Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. - [Wit] You are of the society of the wits and railleurs . . . the surest sign is, since you are an enemy to marriage,--for that, I hear, you hate as much as business or bad wine. - Country Wife [Matrimony] 'Tis my maxim, he's a fool that marries; but he's a greater that does not marry a fool. - Country Wife (act I, sc. 1, l. 502) [Matrimony] Necessity, the mother of invention. - Love in a Wood (act III, sc. 3) [Necessity] I weigh the man, not his title: 'tis not the king's inscription can make the metal better or heavier. - Plain Dealer (act I, sc. 1) [Man] With faint praises one another damn. - Plain dealer--Prologue [Praise] Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate. - The Plain Dealer (prologue) [Friends]
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