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• Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

  Thomas Otway

  Justice, Lame, Blind

  Nicholas Rowe, James Thompson, Richard Steele, Richard-Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas-John Dibdin (1815). “Tamerlane. A Tragedy”

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• Avoid the politic, the factious fool,
  The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave;
  The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason,
  Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal,
  And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.

  Thomas Otway

  Talking, Mutiny, Knaves

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• False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

  Thomas Otway

  Men, Promise, Poor

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• Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.

  Thomas Otway

  Spring, Home, Eye

  1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

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• Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind.

  Thomas Otway

  Men, Mind, Noble

  1676 Don Carlos, act 2.

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• O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
  To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

  Thomas Otway

  Men, Lovely, Everlasting Love

  'Venice Preserved' (1682) act 1, l. 337

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• Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.

  Thomas Otway

  Grief, Sorrow, Speak

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.125

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• And die with decency.

  Thomas Otway

  Death, Dies, Decency

  Nicholas Rowe, James Thompson, Richard Steele, Richard-Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas-John Dibdin (1815). “Tamerlane. A Tragedy”

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• Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.

  Thomas Otway

  Sex, Dames, Female

  Thomas Otway (1712). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway, in Two Volumes”, p.199

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• Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.

  Thomas Otway

  Heart, Tyrants, Reign

  Thomas Otway (1777). “The Orphan: Or, The Unhappy Marriage : a Tragedy, as it is Acted at the Theatres Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden”, p.3

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• No praying, it spoils business.

  Thomas Otway

  Business, Praying, Spoil

  'Venice Preserved' (1682) act 2, l. 87

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• Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.

  Thomas Otway

  Revenge, Attributes, Attributes Of God

  Thomas Otway (1874). “Venice Preserved: A Tragedy in Five Acts ...”, p.13

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• I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!

  Thomas Otway

  May, Proud, Speak

  1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

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