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Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.

Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.

William Wycherley
Wine, Giving, Liberty
1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

William Wycherley
Names, Giving, Oneself
1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.

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

William Wycherley
Pride, Giving, Charity
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

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