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Monsieur D'Olive

Monsier D'Olive is an early Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by George Chapman.


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“For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.”

Monsieur D'Olive, Act V, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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“Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her
Is righted even when men grant they err.”

Monsieur D'Olive, Act I, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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