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 Books by and about John Webster
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Anger
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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
-John Webster
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Evil
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Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
-John Webster, The White Devil; (act V, sc. 6)
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Fame
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Vain ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind.
-John Webster, Vanitas Vanitatum
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Hell
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When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
-John Webster
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Justice
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The weakest arm is strong enough, that strikes
With the sword of justice.
-John Webster, The Duchess Of Malfi, Act V, scene ii
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Luck
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Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
-John Webster
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Temptation
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Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
-John Webster, White Devil (act V, sc. 6)
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Value
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DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value,
They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands.
FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.
-John Webster
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Worth
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We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
-John Webster
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