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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.
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 always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
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Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
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Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.
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Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
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To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.
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Words are the weak support of cold indifference love has no language to be heard.
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A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
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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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How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.
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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
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Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.
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O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
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Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life security is an insipid thing and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
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All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman you must never speak what you think.
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Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.
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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
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