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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.
William Congreve
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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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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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A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
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Words are the weak support of cold indifference love has no language to be heard.
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