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William Wycherley [1640-1716] English

Rank: 102
Dramatist

William Wycherley was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.

Business, Friendship, Jealousy

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A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.		101
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.	Friendship	102
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.		103
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.	Jealousy	104
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.		105
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.		106
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.	Business	107
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.		108
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.		109
I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.		110
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.		111
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.		112
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.		113
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.		114
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.		115
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.		116
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.		117
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?		118

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