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Thomas Otway

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Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.


— Thomas Otway


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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.


— Thomas Otway


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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.


— Thomas Otway


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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.


— Thomas Otway


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No praying, it spoils business.


— Thomas Otway


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Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.


— Thomas Otway


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Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.


— Thomas Otway


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In 1680 Otway also publiThomas Otwayd The Poets Complaint of his Muse or A Satyr against Libells in which he retaliated on his literary enemies. He is said to have emerged from his retreat at the Bull on Tower Hill to beg for bread. In it the two characters familiar throughout his plays make their appearance.

Thomas Otway (3 March 1652 – 14 April 1685) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period best known for Venice Preserv'd or A Plot Discover'd (1682).

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