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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve
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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
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You are a woman: you must never speak what you think your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
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Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
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She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.
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No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
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Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.
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