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"What a Herod of Jewry is this! - O wicked, wicked world! - one that is well nigh worn to pieces with age, to show himself a young gallant!
What an unweighed behaviour hath this Flemish drunkard picked (with the devil`s name) out of my conversation, that he dares in this manner assay me?
Why, he has not been thrice in my company! - What should I say to him? - I was then frugal of my mirth:- Heaven forgive me! Why, I`ll exhibit a bill in the parliament for the putting down of men.
How shall I be revenged on him? for revenged I will be, as sure as his guts are made of puddings."
The Merry Wives of Windsor" -- William Shakespeare
"...this made my life better than sociable; for when I began to regret the want of conversation I would ask myself whether thus conversing mutually with my own thoughts, and, as I hope I may say, with even God himself by ejaculations, was not better than the utmost enjoyment of human society in the world." .../Robinson Crusoe, Daniel De Foe.