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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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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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O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
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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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Who pleases one against his will.
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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 always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
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Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...
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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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Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
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Delay not till tomorrow to be wise tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
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Mr Witwould: Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies. Mrs Millamant: Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose.
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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
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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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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
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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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Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.
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Women like flames have a destroying power never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
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To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
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