You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
We are easily duped by those we love.
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.