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Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
William Congreve
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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
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There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!
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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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Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.
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I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!
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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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No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.
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I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.
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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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He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
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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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O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
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Who pleases 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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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.
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