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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 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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Who pleases one against his will.
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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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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Women like flames have a destroying power never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
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One minute gives invention to destroy What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
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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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Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
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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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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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Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
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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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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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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
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I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
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Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
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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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There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!
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He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
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