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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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Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
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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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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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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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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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Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...
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Beauty is the lover's gift.
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If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
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I am a fool, I know it and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
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Who pleases one against his will.
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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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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
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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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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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Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
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One minute gives invention to destroy What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
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I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.
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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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