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"Let school-masters puzzle their brain / With grammar, and nonsense, and learning / |
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain / Gives genius a better discerning" Tony's song Act 1 |
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"I find this fellow's civilities |
begin to grow troublesome" Hastings, regarding Hardcastle Act 2 |
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"The folly of most people is rather |
an object of mirth than uneasiness" Marlow, to Kate Act 2 |
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"Those who have most virtue in their mouths, |
have least of it in their bosom" Marlow, to Kate Act 2 |
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"I can read the outside of my letters, where my own name is, well enough. |
But when I come to open it, it's all - buzz" Tony, about the letter than has arrived from Hastings Act 4 |
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Kate is praised by Marlow for having "refined _____" |
Simplicity |
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"You took them in a round, while they supposed themselves going forward. |
And you have at last brought them home again." Hastings, to Tony Act 5 |
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"Prudence once more comes to my relief, and I will obey its dictates. In a moment of passion, |
fortune may be despised, but it produces a lasting repentance." Constance, to Hastings Act 5 |
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"I have been an observer upon life, madam, |
while others were enjoying it" Marlow, to Kate Act 2 |
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"An honest man may |
rob himself of his own at any time" Tony, to Hastings Act 3 |
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"This is all but the whining |
end of a modern novel" Mrs. Hardcastle Act 5 |
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"I'm doomed to adore the sex, and yet to |
converse with the only part of it I despise" Marlow Act 2 |
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"I wonder why London cannot |
keep its own fools at home!" Mr. Hardcastle Act 1 |
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"It is a good-natured |
creature at bottom" Constance, regarding Tony Act 1 |
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"the daughter is said to be well-bred and beautiful; |
the son an awkward booby, reared up and spoiled at his mother's apron string" Marlow, regarding Kate and Tony |
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"My life has been chiefly spent in a college or an inn, |
in seclusion from that lovely part of the creation that chiefly teach men confidence" Marlow, to Hastings Act 2 |
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"In the company of women of better reputation |
I never saw such an idiot, such a trembler" Hastings, regarding Marlow Act 2 |
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"A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, |
is the most tremendous object of the whole creation" Marlow Act 2 |
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"Miss Neville's person is all I ask, and that is mine, |
both from her deceased father's consent, and her own inclination" Hastings, to Marlow Act 2 |
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"I yet should leave my |
little fortune behind with reluctance" Constance Act 2 |
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"Her _____ monster" |
Pretty Constance, regarding Tony Act 1 |
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"A single glance from a pair of |
fine eyes has totally overset my resolution" Marlow Act 2 |
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"One must dress |
a little particular" Mrs. Hardcastle Act 2 |
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"We all know the honour |
of the bar-maid of an inn" Marlow Act 4 |
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"But I owe toomuch to the opinion of the world, |
too much to the authority of a father" Marlow Act 4 |