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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.

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

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

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

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

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

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

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

With faint praises one another damn.

The Plain Dealer prologue (1677) See Pope 32

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

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

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

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

Wit has as few true judges as painting.

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