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  • Dramatist
  • 1720 - 1777
  • 11 quotes

Samuel Foote, a dramatist (1720 - 1777), is quoted 11 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Land, Garden, Life and Ancestry.

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Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.

One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.

He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else.

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.

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