Successful crimes alone are justified.

Quote by John Dryden

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Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an...

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an...

Successful crimes alone are justified

Successful crimes alone are justified

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

All heiresses are beautiful.

All heiresses are beautiful.

He loved me well: so well he could but die - To show he loved...

He loved me well: so well he could but die - To show he loved...

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

They can conquer who believe they can

They can conquer who believe they can

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times...

There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times...

Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!

Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

But love's a malady without a cure.

But love's a malady without a cure.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days...

I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days...