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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.
William Congreve
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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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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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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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They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
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Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
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One minute gives invention to destroy What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
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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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O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
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Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.
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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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'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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Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
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No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
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