"Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on The troubled waters of a lake, 'Twill form in circles round succeeding round; Each wider than the first."
"Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks."
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Source: David Garrick, George Colman, the elder (1995). “The Clandestine Marriage”, p.46, Broadview Press
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