“Necessity, the mother of invention.”
Love in a Wood (1671), Act III, scene 3. (This was already a common proverb before Wycherley, cf. Invention, Necessity.)
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“I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.”
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