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"Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee." — John Gay
The Wordsworth dictionary of proverbs (2006) pg. 208 This proverb is at least as old as 1581 and has no known author, though the sentiment has been expressed many times similarly. Add Category or Author

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"To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman" — John Gay
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"When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction" — John Gay
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"One wife is too much for most husbands to hear, / But two at a time there's no mortal can bear." — John Gay
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"She who has never loved has never lived." — John Gay
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"While there is life, there's hope,' he cried; 'Then why such haste?' so groaned and died" — John Gay
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"Bring me a hundred reeds of decent growth,/ To make a pipe for my capacious mouth." — John Gay
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"The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets." — John Gay
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"Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outliv'd the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill" — John Gay
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"I rage, I melt, I burn, / The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart." — John Gay
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"There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self" — John Gay
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"I must have women / there is nothing unbends the mind like them." — John Gay
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"Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together." — John Gay
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"We were able to settle down when we needed to." — John Gay
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"Can Love be controlled by advice?" — John Gay
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"Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil/ O'er books consumed the midnight oil?" — John Gay
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"We only part to meet again. / Change, as ye list, ye winds; my heart shall be / The faithful compass that still points to thee." — John Gay
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"Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives." — John Gay
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"Shadow owes its birth to light." — John Gay
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"By ignorance is pride increased; Those most assume who know the least" — John Gay
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"If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, the mist is dispelled when a woman appears" — John Gay
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