Quote #4
A bachelor May thrive by observation, on a little. A single life's no burden: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.
More from John (dramatist) Ford
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- Flattery Is monstrous in a true friend.
- Oh, happy kings, Whose thrones are raised in their subjects' hearts.
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- Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.
- Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.
- Philosophers dwell in the moon.