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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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All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman you must never speak what you think.
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Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life security is an insipid thing and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
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He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
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You are a woman: you must never speak what you think your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
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Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
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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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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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O, she is the antidote to desire.
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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
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I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
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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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Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
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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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But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.
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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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O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
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Delay not till tomorrow to be wise tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
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