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“Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.”
-- William Wycherley

#Fellowship #Pleasure #Rational

“Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.”
-- William Wycherley

#Revenge #Sleep #Eye
“Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.”
-- William Wycherley

#Goodness #Companion #Good Nature
“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.”
-- William Wycherley

#Book #Mistress #Ems
“He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.”
-- William Wycherley

#Marriage #Fool #Doe
“Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.”
-- William Wycherley

#Hate #Debt #Poet
“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”
-- William Wycherley

#Beauty #Thinking #Handsome
“A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.”
-- William Wycherley

#Together #Sun #Eclipse
“Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.”
-- William Wycherley

#Book #Men #May
“A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.”
-- William Wycherley

#Names #Giving #Oneself
“Wit has as few true judges as painting.”
-- William Wycherley

#Judging #Painting #Wit
“Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.”
-- William Wycherley

#Wine #Giving #Liberty
“Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.”
-- William Wycherley

#Love Is
“I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.”
-- William Wycherley

#Wife #Dull #Eating Alone
“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.”
-- William Wycherley

#Grief #Loss #Way
“Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.”
-- William Wycherley

#Poet #Hated
“As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.”
-- William Wycherley

#Action #Wit #Council
“Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.”
-- William Wycherley

#Pride #Giving #Charity
“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.”
-- William Wycherley

#Sympathy #Pain #Grief
“Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.”
-- William Wycherley

#Money #Men #Want
“Temperance is the nurse of chastity.”
-- William Wycherley

#Nurse #Temperance #Chastity
“With faint praises one another damn.”
-- William Wycherley

#Praise
“Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.”
-- William Wycherley

#Drunk #Pleasure #Glorious
“I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.”
-- William Wycherley

#Kings #Men #Titles
“Necessity, mother of invention.”
-- William Wycherley

#Mother #Motherhood #Invention
“Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.”
-- William Wycherley

#Love #Quality #Breeding
“Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.”
-- William Wycherley

#Love #Littles #Rich
“Women serve but to keep a man from better company.”
-- William Wycherley

#Women #Men #Company
“Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.”
-- William Wycherley

#Women #Honor #Scandal
“Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.”
-- William Wycherley

#Doe #Sincerity #Ceremony

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