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Aphra Behn

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"From what Jane?"
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VICENTE FOX I am surprised. Yes sir, I am.
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APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend an...
APHRA BEHN One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
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APHRA BEHN Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
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APHRA BEHN There is no sinner like a young saint.
APHRA BEHN Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
APHRA BEHN Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
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APHRA BEHN Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be
Defence enough against Mortality
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APHRA BEHN Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend an...
APHRA BEHN One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
APHRA BEHN Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of je...
APHRA BEHN Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Variety is the soul of pleasure.
APHRA BEHN There is no sinner like a young saint.
APHRA BEHN Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
APHRA BEHN Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend an...
APHRA BEHN All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me. . . . If I must not, because of my...
APHRA BEHN Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be
Defence enough against Mortality
APHRA BEHN He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet
APHRA BEHN Come away; poverty's catching
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and...
APHRA BEHN Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe.
MRS. APHRA JOHNSON BEHN If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
MRS. APHRA JOHNSON BEHN It's not fun. That's why I threw in the towel at 10 a.m. Saturday morning. But it's all good.
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