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1. "Heav'n hath no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd." ~ William Congreve
2. "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." ~ William Congreve
3. "Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast." ~ William Congreve
4. "Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you." ~ William Congreve
5. "One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo" ~ William Congreve
6. "They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom." ~ William Congreve
7. "'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman." ~ William Congreve
8. "A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one." ~ William Congreve
9. "I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where." ~ William Congreve
10. "Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond." ~ William Congreve
11. "I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections." ~ William Congreve
12. "I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull." ~ William Congreve
13. "If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me." ~ William Congreve
14. "No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me." ~ William Congreve
15. "Beauty is the lover's gift." ~ William Congreve
16. "You'll grow devilish fat upon this paper-diet!" ~ William Congreve
17. "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." ~ William Congreve
18. "Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved." ~ William Congreve
19. "He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views." ~ William Congreve
20. "Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear." ~ William Congreve
21. "Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." ~ William Congreve
22. "Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight." ~ William Congreve
23. "You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words." ~ William Congreve
24. "Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play." ~ William Congreve
25. "Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing." ~ William Congreve
26. "A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring." ~ William Congreve
27. "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." ~ William Congreve
28. "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." ~ William Congreve
29. "Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure." ~ William Congreve
30. "If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable." ~ William Congreve
31. "Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone." ~ William Congreve
32. "Of those few fools, who with ill stars are curst,Sure scribbling fools, called poets, fare the worst:For they're a sort of fools which fortune makes,And, after she has made them fools, forsakes.With Nature's oafs 'tis quite a different case,For Fortune favours all her idiot race.In her own nest the cuckoo eggs we find,Over which she broods to hatch the changeling kind:No portion for her own she has to spare,So much she dotes on her adopted care.Poets are bubbles, by the town drawn in,Suffered at first some trifling stakes to win:But what unequal hazards do they run!Each time they write they venture all they've won:The Squire that's buttered still, is sure to be undone.This author, heretofore, has found your favour,But pleads no merit from his past behaviour.To build on that might prove a vain presumption,Should grant to poets made admit resumption,And in Parnassus he must lose his seat,If that be found a forfeited estate." ~ William Congreve
33. "True, 'tis an unhappy circumstance of life that love should ever die before us, and that the man so often should outlive the lover. 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. For my part, my youth may wear and waste, but it shall never rust in my possession." ~ William Congreve
34. "I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar." ~ William Congreve

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