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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.
William Congreve
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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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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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A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
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O, she is the antidote to desire.
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Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
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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 ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.
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All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman you must never speak what you think.
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Delay not till tomorrow to be wise tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
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Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.
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Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
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I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
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