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Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret

Aphra Behn was a British playwright, poet, and novelist. She is considered one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing.

Playwright | British

Born: 1640-12-14 in Canterbury, United Kingdom

Died: April 16, 1689 in London, United Kingdom

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

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Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

Aphra Behn

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Aphra Behn

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Aphra Behn

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

Aphra Behn

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Aphra Behn

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Aphra Behn

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Aphra Behn

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