“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.”
William Wycherley The Plain Dealer
The Plain Dealer (1677), Act I, scene 1.
“And with faint praises one another damn.”
William Wycherley The Plain Dealer
The Plain Dealer (1677), Prologue.