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• Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Conquest of Granada, Part ii, Act i, Sc. 2...
• I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Conquest of Granada, Part i, Act i, Sc. 1...
• I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Maiden Queen, Act iii, Sc. 1...
• There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Spanish Friar, Act ii, Sc. 1...
• T is not for nothing that we life pursue; It pays our hopes with something still that 's new.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Aurengzebe, Act iv, Sc. 1...
• Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spi
  And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch....
• Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Conquest of Granada, Epilogue...
• His hair just grizzled, As in a green old age. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Oedipus, Act iii, Sc.
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• Whatever is, is in its causes just. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Oedipus, Act iii, Sc. 1