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

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“He laughs best who laughs last.”

“When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.”

“The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.”

“Vanbrugh, The Provoked Wife. Use with caution, this is an abridged and bowdlerised text.”

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

“Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.”

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