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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.
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I am a fool, I know it and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
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Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.
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Mr Witwould: Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies. Mrs Millamant: Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose.
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