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I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials.
William Congreve
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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.
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These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.
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One minute gives invention to destroy What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
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You are a woman: you must never speak what you think your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
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I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
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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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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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Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.
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Women like flames have a destroying power never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
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