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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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He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
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If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
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Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.
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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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Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
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I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
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Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.
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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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No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
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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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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
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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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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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Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
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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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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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Beauty is the lover's gift.
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