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  -- William Congreve (1670-1729) -- Love for Love, Act ii, Sc. 7...
• Kitty. Shikspur? Shikspur? Who wrote it? No, I never read Shikspur.
  Lady Bab. Then you have an immense pleasure to come....
• A sudden thought strikes me,--let us swear an eternal friendship.
  -- J. Hookham Frere (1769-1846) -- The Rovers, Act i, Sc. 1...
• Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes. -- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) -- The Roaring Girl, Act i, Sc.
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• And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Love's Labour 's Lost -- Act i, Sc. 1...
• You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than sue
  Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak -- Pray, how did you manage to do it?...
• Grampa: [mechanically] Lovelorn. You need man. Moe near now.
  Go near Moe. Betty: What? Moe: "Go near Moe....
• Down on your knees, And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act iii, Sc. 5...
• You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as eve
  Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose -- What made you so awfully clever?...