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.

William Congreve

The Way of the World

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Original Citation

Congreve, William. The Way of the World. Performed by John Verbruggen and Anne Bracegirdle. Mar. 1700, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Congreve, William. "The Way of the World." The Way of the World and Other Plays, edited by Eric S. Rump. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 2, sc. 1.