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• A knock-down argument: 't is but a word and a blow.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Amphitryon, Act i, Sc. 1...
• The real Amphitryon is the Amphitryon who gives dinners.
  -- Jean Baptiste Moliere (1622-1673) -- Amphitryon, Act iii, Sc. 5...
• His hair just grizzled, As in a green old age. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Oedipus, Act iii, Sc.
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• Whatever is, is in its causes just. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Oedipus, Act iii, Sc. 1
• I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Maiden Queen, Act iii, Sc. 1...
• There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Spanish Friar, Act ii, Sc. 1...
• What precious drops are those Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew?
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Conquest of Granada, Part ii, Act iii, Sc. 1...
• As sure as a gun. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Spanish Friar, Act iii, Sc. 2
• All delays are dangerous in war. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Tyrannic Love, Act i, Sc. 1