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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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A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
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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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O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
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A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
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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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One minute gives invention to destroy What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
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There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.
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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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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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Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.
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Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.
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Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
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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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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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I am a fool, I know it and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
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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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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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These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.
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