Quote #10

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

More from Aphra Behn

  1. Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
  2. Oh what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
  3. A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
  4. He that knew all that ever Learning writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
  5. One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
  6. Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
  7. Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
  8. :that perfect Tranquillity of Life, which is no where to be found, but in retreat, a faithful Friend and a good Library:

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