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Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...
William Congreve
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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined A sickly flame, which if not fed expires And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
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I nauseate walking 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
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I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.
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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
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Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great whileAnd as well-bred as if we were not married at all.
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These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.
William Congreve
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
William Congreve
I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
William Congreve
A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
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Beauty is the lover's gift.
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She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces sifted her, and separated her failings I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.
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Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
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Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
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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.
William Congreve
'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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Words are the weak support of cold indifference love has no language to be heard.
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O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.
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They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
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If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
William Congreve
