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I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

William Congreve

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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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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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A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
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Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
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No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
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Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life security is an insipid thing and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
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Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
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Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.
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I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
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'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
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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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A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
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