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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2767/">Quotes by <em>Gay, John</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

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

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"Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?"

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"Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise."

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"We only part to meet again."

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"O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on."

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"An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse."

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"Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company."

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"Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either."

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"Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose."

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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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