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Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
William Wycherley
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William Wycherley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1640
Born: January 1
Died: 1715
Died: December 31
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Shropshire
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Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
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Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.
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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
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Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.
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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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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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With faint praises one another damn.
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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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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
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