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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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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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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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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
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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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How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.
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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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A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
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I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
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I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
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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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Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
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O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
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Who pleases one against his will.
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