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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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'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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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
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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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If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
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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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Who pleases one against his will.
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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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