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Quote by William Congreve
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. – William Congreve

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A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty. – William Congreve

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Sincerity
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William Congreve
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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. – William Congreve

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Business
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People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. – Mary Wesley

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Like my vodka, my marriage is on the rocks. – Craig D. Slovak

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He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband. – Michel de Montaigne, “Upon Some Verses of Virgil”

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After about 20 years of marriage, Im finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. – Mel Gibson

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