32 Quotes by John Vanbrugh

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    Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more’s a task too hard for mortals.

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    We gentlemen, whose chariot’s roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.

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    Friendship’s said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

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    Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, ’tis woman that will govern it.

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    As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted ’em.

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