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One minute gives invention to destroy What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
William Congreve
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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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Words are the weak support of cold indifference love has no language to be heard.
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Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
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He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.
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Beauty is the lover's gift.
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There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.
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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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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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Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
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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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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
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O, she is the antidote to desire.
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O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
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O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
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Marriage is honourable, as you say and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?
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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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