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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.

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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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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

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If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

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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.

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No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

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

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They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: February 10th, 1670

Died: January 19th, 1729

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