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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
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Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure:
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
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Some by experience find those words mis-placed:
At leisure married, they repent in haste.
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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
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Baboons and apes ridiculous we find; For what? For ill resembling Human-kind.
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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.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver
William Congreve
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Born:
January 24, 1670
Died:
January 19, 1729
(aged 58)
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