“Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.”
Source: Four Great Restoration Comedies
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Famous William Wycherley Quotes
“I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.”
Source: A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. IX.
“Women serve but to keep a man from better company.”
Source: Four Great Restoration Comedies
“Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.”
Source: Miscellany poems concluded. Miscellaneous poems published from more correct copies. Hero and Leander in burlesque. The posthumous works
“I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.”
Source: The Country Wife