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Aphra Behn Quotes

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

that perfect Tranquillity of Life, which is no where to be found, but in retreat, a faithful Friend and a good Library

He that knew all that ever Learning writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

Oh what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

Come away; poverty's catching.

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

There's no sinner like a young saint.

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