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William Congreve
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"Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of ’em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass."
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William Congreve
Topic(s):
Wisdom
"Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
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William Congreve
Topic(s):
Music
"Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play."
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William Congreve
Topic(s):
Marriage
"Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved."
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William Congreve
Topic(s):
Love
"‘Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman."
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William Congreve
Topic(s):
Education
"There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire."
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William Congreve
Topic(s):
Beauty
"Beauty is the lover’s gift."
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William Congreve
Topic(s):
Beauty
"Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight."
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William Congreve
Topic(s):
Anger
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
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William Congreve
Topic(s):
Anger
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