When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
He laughs best who laughs last. - John Vanbrugh
He laughs best who laughs last.
- John Vanbrugh
Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me. - John Vanbrugh
Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.
Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world. - John Vanbrugh
Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.
Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals - John Vanbrugh
Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading. - John Vanbrugh
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having i… - John Vanbrugh
You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having i…
No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so. - John Vanbrugh
No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.
Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it. - John Vanbrugh
Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. - John Vanbrugh
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
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