Sir William Congreve

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    ““If I can wheedle
    A knife or a needle,
    Why not a Silver Churn?””
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

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    All Nature was degraded;”
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    “A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as t’other of beauty.”
    —William Congreve (1670–1729)