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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
William Congreve
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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
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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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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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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
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I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials.
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Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.
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A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
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'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
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