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" An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse. "
John Gay
Worse
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Friend
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" No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat. "
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" But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest. "
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Earth
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Thee
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" 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. "
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You
Rich
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Tell
Understand
" O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on. "
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Them
You
" Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. "
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Kind
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