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Look you, Amanda, you may build Castles in the Air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, 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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Source: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger (1759), act III, scene ii, Plays, p. 56. Berinthia is speaking
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