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With faint praises one another damn.
William Wycherley
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William Wycherley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1640
Born: January 1
Died: 1715
Died: December 31
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Wit has as few true judges as painting.
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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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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
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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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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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Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
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Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.
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Temperance is the nurse of chastity.
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Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.
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Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
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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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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
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Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.
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