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

— John Vanbrugh

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

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

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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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

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