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| John Gay
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse. But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out. Can love be controlled by advice?Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most? Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either. Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company. The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self. Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. |
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