A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
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Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.William Congreve
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
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Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined A sickly flame, which, if not fed, expires, And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
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I could find it in my heart to marry thee, purely to be rid of thee.
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I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.
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Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure, Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
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