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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
William Wycherley
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William Wycherley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1640
Born: January 1
Died: 1715
Died: December 31
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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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Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
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Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
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Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
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Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
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Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.
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Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
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A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
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I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
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Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
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Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
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Wit has as few true judges as painting.
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A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
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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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Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
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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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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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With faint praises one another damn.
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He's a fool that marries but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
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