23 ordspråk av William Wycherley
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.
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Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
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Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
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Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
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Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
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Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
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