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William Congreve
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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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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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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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Women like flames have a destroying power never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
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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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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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There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.
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A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
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I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!
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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
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One minute gives invention to destroy What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
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Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
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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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I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
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Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.
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