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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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Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
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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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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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Who pleases one against his will.
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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
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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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Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
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I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
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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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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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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.
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They are at the end of the gallery retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
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One minute gives invention to destroy What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
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O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
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I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
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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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