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Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
William Congreve
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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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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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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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Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.
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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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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
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Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
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Words are the weak support of cold indifference love has no language to be heard.
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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
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These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.
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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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No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.
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I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
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I nauseate walking 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
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I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
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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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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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Who pleases one against his will.
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