#w

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse. ↗

— John Gay

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But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out. ↗

— John Gay

#fuller #money #out #reputations #spot

I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them. ↗

— John Gay

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Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together. ↗

— John Gay

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She who has never loved has never lived. ↗

— John Gay

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Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. ↗

— John Gay

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I eat 230 grams of protein daily, 308 grams of carbohydrates, maybe 70 grams of fat. I can have one cheat meal a week but it can't be that I eat until I'm stuffed; I eat until I'm satisfied. ↗

— Tyson Gay

#cheat #daily #eat #fat #i

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#just #me #running #sensible #think

There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence. ↗

— Peter Gay

#about #accomplishment #aggression #also #child

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically. ↗

— Peter Gay

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