A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
JOHN DRYDENIf thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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