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George Farquhar (1678 – 1707)


Irish dramatist.
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George Farquhar
Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.
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I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
Farquhar
I hate all that don’t love me, and slight all that do.




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Necessity, the mother of invention.
Farquhar George
’T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad.
George Farquhar quotes
Poetry’s a mere drug, Sir.
George Farquhar
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
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Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.
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[T]hose who know the least, obey the best.
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Crimes, like Virtues, are their own Rewards.
George Farquhar
Cos. Pray now, what may be that same bed of honour?
Kite. Oh, a mighty large bed! bigger by half than the great bed at Ware: ten thousand people may lie in it together, and never feel one another.




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