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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!

William Congreve

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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
Engineer
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Playwright
Poet
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Give
Loves
Echoes
Play
Wait
Everlasting
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Waiting
Lady
Giving
Talk
Catch
Dies
Till
Lasts
Fairs
Rotation
Last
Tongue
Incessantly
Words
Fair
Echo

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