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Mrs Malaprop in 3.3 about Jack

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He is the very pineapple of politeness

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Moral at the end of the play- Julia, 5.3

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Virtue would crown them a garland of modest, hurtless flowers

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Jack on Faulkland in 2.1

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“Now for my whimsical friend”
“Go gently gales”
“Poor Faulkland, five minutes since nothing on earth could give him a moments’s uneasiness”
“Stay Faulkland”

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Faulkland on love

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“The mutual tear that steals down the cheek of parting lovers is a compact that no smile shall live there until they meet again” 3.2
“If I loved you less, I’d never give you an uneasy moment” 3.2
“And with this device, I throw away all my previous doubts” 5.1
“Love. Tormentor! Fiend! Whose influence, like the moon’s, acts upon on men of dull souls makes idiots of them, but upon meeting subtler spirits betrays their course and urges sensibility to madness” 5.1
“The warm effusion of a too thankful heart” 3.2

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Julia on Faulkland

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“We are contracted before my father’s death” 1.2
“If he is captious, it is without dissembling” 1.2
“I do not love even his faults” 1.2
“This infirmity… Lost you the love of one who would have followed you in beggary through the world” 5.1

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Love has been…

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Love has been a masquerader since the days of Jupiter 1.1 Fag

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Julia after Faulkland reveals in 5.1

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“Has no such disaster happened as you related?”

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Where is this quote from: “Her brain has been turned by reading!”?

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Sir Anthony, 4.2

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Quotes about Jack and self awareness

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“Gently tongue” 3.3
“If she holds out now the devil is in it” 3.3
“Captain Absolute and Ensign Beverley are the same person” 1.1
“Who the devil are you sirrah, speak for your mother if you won’t for me!” 4.2
“You have not come out as anyone else have you?” 4.2
Sir; I am delighted to see you here 2.1

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Malapropisms

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He is the very pineapple of politeness 3.3
Illiterate him quite from your memory 1.2
Murder’s the matter, killing’s the matter, slaughter’s the matter, but he can tell you the perpendiculars 5.1

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Malaprop when hearing of Lydia and a jack speaking in 3.3

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This to his face!
So she has been in a passion has she?
Why thou vixen I have overheard you!

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Old weather-beaten she-dragon, whoever can he mean by that?

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Me sir. Me! He means me there!

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Likeness between Sir A and Jack

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“A circulating library is a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. It blossoms throughout the year” 1.2

“Few like Mrs Malaprop and the orange tree are rich in both at once” 3.3

“It’s his way. It’s all our ways” 4.2

“And obstinate, passionate self willed boy. Who can he take after?” 3:1

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Likeness between Mrs M and Lydia

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“She is something blind” 4.2 is like “she squints don’t she?”

“Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. I am certain I did hate your poor dear uncle before marriage” 1.2 is like:
“What signifies kneeling when you know that I must have you?” 4.2

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Quotes about marriage and attitudes to it

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He’ll mend surprisingly Sir A, 5.3
I wish they were harnessed together in matrimony 1.1
If you have the estate, you must take it with the livestock on it 2.1 Sir A
The fortune is saddled with a wife 2.1 Sir A

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Pretensions of Acres

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Ods minims and crotchets 2.1
Ods triggers and balls 3.4
Jealous of me? That's a good joke! 2.1
Sentimental swearing 2.1
Damns have had their day! 2.1
Fighting Bob 4.1
A determined dog 4.1
So tell him I generally kill a man a week 4.1
His appearance in 2004 Bristol Old Vic
[Coming forward, practising a dancing step] Sink, step, coupé 3.4
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Honour quotes

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This honour seems to me to be a marvellous false friend David 4.1
My valour is certainly going! It is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, from the palms of my hands 5.3

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Quotes from Lydia- childish/sentimental

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So there will be no elopement?” 4.2
Oh how I would fly with him to the antipodes 3.3
I only meant to tease him for three days and a half 1.2
You know that I lose most of my fortune if I marry without my aunt’s consent til of age, and that is what I have determined to do ever since I knew the penalty” 1.2
We had never had a quarrel and I was afraid that he would never give the chance 1.2
I am the only dupe at last 5.1
How unlike my Beverley! 3.3
Sir! 4.2
What signifies kneeling when you know that I must have you! 4.2

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Lucy and artifice

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Ods life, he’s giving her money! 1.1
“I’d wager a sixpence I went by whilst you were asleep” 2.2
My stars!
Pass the sal volatile, is it in the blue cover ma’am? 1.2
“I’ve never seen such a gemman” 2.2
“Now my dear simplicity, let me give you a little respite” 1.2
Well done simplicity 1.2
She is a simpleton 1.2

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Deception

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Never say more than is necessary 2.1
Take care you don’t hurt your credit by offering too much security 2.1
Captain absolute and ensign Beverley are the same person 1.1
Who the devil are you sir? Speak for your mother if you won’t for me! 4.2
You haven’t come out as someone else have you Jack?? 4.2
Condemn me to a mask of silliness
And with this useless device I throw away all my previous doubts 5.1

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Lucy and artifice

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Ods life, he’s giving her money! 1.1
“I’d wager a sixpence I went by whilst you were asleep” 2.2
My stars!
Pass the sal volatile, is it in the blue cover ma’am? 1.2
“I’ve never seen such a gemman” 2.2
“Now my dear simplicity, let me give you a little respite” 1.2
Well done simplicity 1.2
She is a simpleton 1.2

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Deception

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Never say more than is necessary
Take care you don’t hurt your credit by offering too much security 2.1
Condemn me to a mask of silliness 1.2
Perhaps you know the writing, yes 8 think I have seen the hand before 3.3

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Faulkland v Jack on love

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There is an innate Levity in women that nothing can overcome 3.2
V
I expect to be recalled any day 2.1

“My heart is ardently fixed on one object” 2.1
Oh Faulkland do love like a man 2.1

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Views on women

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There is an innate levity in women that nothing can overcome 3.2
Thought does not become a young woman 1.2
If you have the estate, you must take it with the livestock on it. 2.1
The fortune is saddled with a wife. 2.1
Emotions are epithets of weakness- Vindication of Women’s Rights- Wollstonecraft

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Julia- and duty

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We were contracted before my father’s death. 1.2
My father loved you Faulkland and you have preserved the life that tender parent gave me 5.1
The contract which my poor father bound us in 2.3

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I have been considering that I grow old and infirm

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I have been considering that I am so strong and hearty 2.1

27
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Fag

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You will do me the favour of remembering that we are recruiting 2.1
Excuse my glove Thomas 1.1
[Exit, Kicking and beating Errand Boy]