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- Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. William Wycherley.
- 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.
- He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold? William Wycherley.
- 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.
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Quotes about Wycherley. He lost his memory forty years before he died by a fever, and would repeat the same thought sometimes in the compass of ten lines, and did not dream of its being inserted but just before. When you pointed it out to him he would say, "Gads-so, so it is! I thank you very much: pray blot it out."
- “Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before” ― William Wycherley, The Country Wife.
- “A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.” ― William Wycherley, Country Wife.
- “A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.” ― William Wycherley, Country Wife.
- “Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.” ― William Wycherley.
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