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William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley on Marriage

1520–1598 England

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Use great prudence and circumspection, in choosing thy wife, for from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life like unto a stratagem of war, wherein a man can err but once.

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