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These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.

William Congreve

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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.
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Women like flames have a destroying power never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
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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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I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
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No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.
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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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Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.
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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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O, she is the antidote to desire.
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Words are the weak support of cold indifference love has no language to be heard.
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