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“It is with Love as with CuckoldomMthe suffering party is at least the third, but generally the last in the house who knows any thing about the matter.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“He had a gentleman-like frankness in his behaviour, and as a great point of honour as a minister can have, especially a minister at the head of the treasury, where numberless sturdy and insatiable beggars of condition apply, who cannot all be gratified, nor all with safety be refused.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
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