Aphra Behn (1640 – 1689)
Prolific Restoration dramatist and writer of amatory fiction.
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Come away; poverty's catching.
Oh what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
There's no sinner like a young saint.
Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
He that knew all that ever Learning writ,
Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
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