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Not who you're looking for? Others named William Congreve: British writer (1670-1729)
“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.”
“Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.”
“And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats!”
“I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.”
“'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.”
“Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants, like a maker of pincushions; thou art in truth (metaphorically speaking) a speaker of shorthand.”
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