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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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Mr Witwould: Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies. Mrs Millamant: Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose.
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
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I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
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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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Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.
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I nauseate walking 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
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Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
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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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