True, 'tis an unhappy circumstance of life that love should… - William Congreve

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True, 'tis an unhappy circumstance of life that love should ever die before us, and that the man so often should outlive the lover. But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old. For my part, my youth may wear and waste, but it shall never rust in my possession.

William Congreve

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William Congreve (24 January 1670 – 19 January 1729) was an English playwright and poet.

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Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

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