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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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Playwright
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Littles
Dwindle
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Articles
Endure
Degrees
Continue
Longer
Wife
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A little scorn is alluring.
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I am a fool, I know it and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
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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!
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All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman you must never speak what you think.
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No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.
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He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
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