The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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Love is not a volunteer thing.
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To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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