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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 hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
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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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There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.
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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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Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.
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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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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
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I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
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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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Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.
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O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
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Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.
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One minute gives invention to destroy What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
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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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O, she is the antidote to desire.
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.
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