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

— William Congreve , The Way of the World

Act II, scene i. Precedent for Alfred Tennyson's more famous: "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"
The Way of the World (1700)

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British writer 1670–1729

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