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Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

~William Wycherley

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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.

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Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

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I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

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Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

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Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

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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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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: Unknown

Died: January 1st, 1716

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