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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

William Congreve

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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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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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Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
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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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I am a fool, I know it and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
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O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
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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.
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O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
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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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There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.
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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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One minute gives invention to destroy What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
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There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!
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