Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
Quotes from Love for Love — William Congreve
1670–1729 England
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I warrant you, if he danced till doomsday, he thought I was to pay the piper.
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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand.
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I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.
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Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.
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O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
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I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
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Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.
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Thou liar of the first magnitude.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Congreve (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.