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Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
William Congreve
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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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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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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
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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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These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.
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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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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
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