Thou liar of the first magnitude. - William Congreve

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Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants, like a maker of pincushions; thou art in truth (metaphorically speaking) a speaker of shorthand.

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Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast/To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak

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"Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play."

(quoted in Life After Life)

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