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“A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.”
Source: THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN EIGHT VOLUMES: CONTAINING The Most Valuable PLAYS Which Have Been Acted on the LONDON STAGE.. INCONSTANT. By Mr. Farzuhar ; LOVE FOR LOVE. By Mr. Congreve ; LOVE MAKES A MAN. By C. Cibber, Esq. ; LYING LOVER. By Sir Rich. Steele ; PROVOKED WIFE. By Sir John Vanbrugh. VOL. V.
“Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.”
Source: The Works of Mr William Congreve...