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«Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Mankind | Keywords: impudence, knaves, thrive
«For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Art, Nature
«Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.»
«Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Habit | Keywords: habitable
«Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Habit | Keywords: seas
«It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.»
«All objects lose by too familiar a view.»
«And thus the child imposes on the man.»
«Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: bait, shun, snare
«Reason to rule but mercy to forgive: the first is law; the last, prerogative.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: prerogative

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