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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

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Sharper: Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure:
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Setter: 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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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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William Congreve

William Congreve
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Born: January 24, 1670
Died: January 19, 1729 (aged 58)
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