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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
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But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.
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Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
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Born:
January 24, 1670
Died:
January 19, 1729
(aged 58)
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