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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
William Congreve
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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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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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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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Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
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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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'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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There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.
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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
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He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
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No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.
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O, she is the antidote to desire.
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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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Women like flames have a destroying power never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
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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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They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
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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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Marriage is honourable, as you say and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?
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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
William Congreve
Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.
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