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Delarivier Manley
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“No time like the present.”
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“Courage and clemency are equal virtues.”
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“Oh, how unconstantly our fortune turns. / One hour in joy, the next with sorrow mourns.”
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“Rich tears! What power lies in those falling drops.”
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“... the truly covetous have never enough!”
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“Time and chance reveal all secrets.”
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“Nature has made nothing in vain.”
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“... it would have been a Fault in her, not to have been Faulty.”
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“One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.”
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“There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude ...”
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“Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance.”
Delarivier Manley, English writer, playwright, political pamphleteer
(1670 - 1724)
Her first name is also seen as Delariviere, Delarivière or de la Rivière. She referred to herself as Delarivier or Delia.