We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we … - George Etherege

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. . that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.

George Etherege

We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

Affection, Anon, Business, Dote, Helping, Pleasure

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Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

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Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

Coming, Good, Mistress, Next, Old, Understanding

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

Passion, Violent, Torture, Thing, Endure

I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.

Air, Fop, Heart, Helping, Influence, Touch

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. . that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.

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