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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.

  William Wycherley

  Pride, Giving, Charity

  William Wycherley (1849). “The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar. With Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. A New Edition”, p.19

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• Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

  William Wycherley

  Doe, Sincerity, Ceremony

  Mr. William Wycherley, Mr. John Crown, Colley Cibber “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. IX.”

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• With faint praises one another damn.

  William Wycherley

  Praise, Damn

  The Plain Dealer prologue (1677) See Pope 32

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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.

  William Wycherley

  Grief, Loss, Way

  William Wycherley, Peter Dixon (1998). “Country Wife and Other Plays”, p.84, Oxford University Press, USA

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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.

  William Wycherley

  Wife, Dull, Eating Alone

  1675 The Country Wife, act 3, sc.2.

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• Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

  William Wycherley

  Drunk, Pleasure, Glorious

  1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.

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• Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

  William Wycherley

  Hate, Debt, Poet

  William Wycherley, Peter Dixon (1998). “Country Wife and Other Plays”, p.290, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

  William Wycherley

  Friends, Book, Reading

  William Wycherley (1964). “Miscellany poems concluded. Miscellaneous poems published from more correct copies. Hero and Leander in burlesque. The posthumous works”

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• As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

  William Wycherley

  Action, Wit, Council

  William Wycherley, William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1871). “The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar :”, p.18

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• Wit has as few true judges as painting.

  William Wycherley

  Judging, Painting, Wit

  William Wycherley, Peter Dixon (1998). “Country Wife and Other Plays”, p.13, Oxford University Press, USA

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