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Letter "W" » William Congreve Quotes
«Wit must be foiled by wit : cut a diamond with a diamond»
«If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see That heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me»
«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.»
«No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.»
«Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them.»
Author: William Congreve
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alabaster, boxes, cheering, sealed, sweetness, tenderness, thrilled
«Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.»
Author: William Congreve
| About:
Expectation,
Uncertainty
| Keywords:
chase, discovers, expectation, insipid, overtaking, possessing, The Chase, uncertainty
«A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.»
«One of love's April-fools.»
«Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play»
«I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections»
Author: William Congreve
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confess, freely, monkey, mortified, mortifies, mortify, mortifying, reflections
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