They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
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If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.William Congreve
Wife, spouse, my dear, joy, jewel, love, sweet-heart and the rest of that nauseous cant, in which men and their wives are so fulsomely familiar.
William Congreve
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
William Congreve
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
William Congreve
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
William Congreve
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