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I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.

William Congreve

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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
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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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Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.
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No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.
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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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Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
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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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One minute gives invention to destroy What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
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