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Belinda: Ay, but you know we must return good for evil.
Lady Brute: That may be a mistake in the translation.

— 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.

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

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Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

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