William Wycherley Quotes
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I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.
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With faint praises one another damn.
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Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
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Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.
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Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.
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I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
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Wit has as few true judges as painting.
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Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.
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Necessity, mother of invention.
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Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.
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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
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A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
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He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
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Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
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Temperance is the nurse of chastity.
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Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.
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Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
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Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
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Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
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Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
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Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
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Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.
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A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
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A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
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But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it
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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
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Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.
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