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No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

— John Vanbrugh

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As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.

Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.

Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

The Provoked Wife (1697)

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

He laughs best who laughs last.

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Victor Hugo Les Misérables (1862)

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