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  1. Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And t…
  2. Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perh…
  3. Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.
  4. Penny saved is a penny got.
  5. When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough; I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
  6. A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet t…
  7. Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. Today it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen …
  8. The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation

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