"It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another."

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Source : George Farquhar, Arthur Murphy, George sen Colman, David Garrick (1817). “Comedy of the Beaux Stratagem with the Biography of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”, p.64

George Farquhar

#Power Quotes #Men Quotes #Wife Quotes

“Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”
“The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.”
“He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat ***** and nice tits.”
“My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.”
“Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world. No matter what happens. I need you to remember that I love you.”
“All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.”

Source : Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (2010). “The Leopard: Revised and with new material”, p.143, Random House
“When death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep.”
“It wasn't just Willie and Waylon, there were a lot of influences there. The coolest thing about this, is after getting to listen back to all these mixes is realizing that this record is like a bag of Skittles; every time you pull something out, it's a different flavor. But they're all Skittles. They're all Cody Johnson.”

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