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Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.

— William Congreve Love for Love (1695)

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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

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I warrant you, if he danced till doomsday, he thought I was to pay the piper.

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And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats!

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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand.

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