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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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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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Women like flames have a destroying power never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
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There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.
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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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Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
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Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.
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Words are the weak support of cold indifference love has no language to be heard.
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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
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O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
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I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
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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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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
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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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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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Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life security is an insipid thing and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
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I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
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No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.
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Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
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