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Envy is a kind of praise.

A miss for pleasure and a wife for breed.

Gulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

Who friendship with a knave hath made Is judged a partner in the trade.

Who friendship with a knave hath made is judged a partner in the trade.

We only part to meet again.

A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much

The Beggar's Opera

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John Gay

Poet

Born: 1685-06-30

Died: 1732-12-04

John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.More