There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

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• George Farquhar:

  I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

• George Farquhar:

  Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

• George Farquhar:

  Spare all I have, and take my life.

• George Farquhar:

  Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

• George Farquhar:

  Necessity, the mother of invention.

• George Farquhar:

  Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

• George Farquhar:

  We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

• Dion Boucicault:

  Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

• Charles Macklin:

  Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

• Charles Macklin:

  Every tub must stand upon its bottom.