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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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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
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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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If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
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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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They are at the end of the gallery retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
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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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A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
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