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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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Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
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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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Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
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She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.
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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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I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
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Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
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Beauty is the lover's gift.
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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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Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.
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They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
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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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To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
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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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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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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
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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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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
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