Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
From William Wycherley
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
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