Colley Cibber

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• Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

  Xerxes, Act IV, sc. iii (1699).

  • Love

• A weak invention of the enemy.

  Richard III (altered) (1700), Act V, scene 3. Similar thought in William Shakespeare, King Richard III.

  • Enemies

• We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,⁠—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

  Love’s Last Shift, Act IV (1696)

  • Women

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