Would she could make of me a saint,Or I of her a sinner.
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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.William Congreve
She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.
William Congreve
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
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Beauty is the lover's gift.
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Where modesty's ill manners, 'tis but fitThat impudence and malice pass for wit.
William Congreve
For 'tis some virtue, virtue to commend.
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