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No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
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 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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I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
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Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
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Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
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Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
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I am a fool, I know it and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
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I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials.
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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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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
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No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.
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I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
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One minute gives invention to destroy What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
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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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'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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