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Explore more quotes by William Congreve


"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."


"You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words."


"To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task."


"In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me."


"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."
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