It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
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Rise to meet him in a pretty disorder - yes- O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
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Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke
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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
William Congreve
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