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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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Words are the weak support of cold indifference love has no language to be heard.
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
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To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.
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O, she is the antidote to desire.
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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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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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