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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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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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I nauseate walking 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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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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Who pleases one against his will.
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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
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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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O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
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Words are the weak support of cold indifference love has no language to be heard.
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There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!
William Congreve
One minute gives invention to destroy What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
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To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.
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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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They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
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A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
William Congreve
I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
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