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Aphra Behn

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That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.


— Aphra Behn


#reading #faith

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.


— Aphra Behn


#language #money #nations #sense #speaks

Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.


— Aphra Behn


#life #love #age

As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.


— Aphra Behn


#love #love

You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.


— Aphra Behn


#dancer #dancing #love #love

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.


— Aphra Behn


#knew #learning #nothing #only #writ

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.


— Aphra Behn


#age #common #dull #each #happy

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.


— Aphra Behn


#found #friend #good #library #life

There is no sinner like a young saint.


— Aphra Behn


#saint #sinner #young

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.


— Aphra Behn


#hour #living #love #love is #worth






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Behn was firmly dedicated to the restored King Charles II. (p 248)


Life in England writing career work as a spy

Shortly after her return to England from Surinam in 1664 Aphra Johnson married one Johan Behn a merchant of German or Dutch extraction. Stanley Kunitz and Howard Haycraft.

Aphra Behn (baptised 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration the first English professional female writer. Along with Delarivier Manley and Eliza Haywood Aphra Behn is sometimes referred to as part of "The fair triumvirate of wit. ".

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