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• Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Palamon and Arcite, Book ii, Line 758...
• These are the effects of doting age: vain doubts, and idle cares, and over caution. -- John Dryde
• Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Conquest of Granada, Epilogue...
• His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's power to thunder.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Coriolanus -- Act iii, Sc. 1...
• Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow.
  -- John Keats (1795-1821) -- The Eve of St. Agnes, Stanza 16...
• Bless the hand that gave the blow. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Spanish Friar, Act ii, Sc. 1
• He lifted himself up by his own bootstraps.
• Pardonnez-moi, monsieur." (Spoken to the executioner, after she stepped on his foot.
  ) ~~ Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, d. October 16, 1793...
• He has, I know not what, of greatness in his looks, and of high fate, that almost awes me.
  -- John Dryde...