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Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibres, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
~ Sir John Vanbrugh Quote

A slighted woman knows no bounds.
~ Sir John Vanbrugh Quote

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals.
~ Sir John Vanbrugh Quote

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
~ Sir John Vanbrugh Quote

If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
~ Sir John Vanbrugh Quote

We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.
~ Sir John Vanbrugh Quote

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.
~ Sir John Vanbrugh Quote

Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.
~ Sir John Vanbrugh Quote

Custom is the law of fools.
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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
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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 is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.
~ Sir John Vanbrugh Quote

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
~ Sir John Vanbrugh Quote

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.
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