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A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
William Wycherley
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William Wycherley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1640
Born: January 1
Died: 1715
Died: December 31
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Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
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Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.
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A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
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Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
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Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
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I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love loving alone is as dull as eating alone.
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Mistresses are like books if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
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Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
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As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
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Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.
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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
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But methings wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it
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Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
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Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.
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Necessity, mother of invention.
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