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• When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King John -- Act iii, Sc. 4...
• Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
  The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex. -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act i, Sc. 4...
• The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 't were gross flattery to name a coward.
  -- John Tobin (1770-1804) -- The Honeymoon, Act ii, Sc. 1...
• If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act iii, Sc. 1...
• Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it.
• She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Oedipus, Act iv, Sc. 1...
• The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imaginatio
  And every lovely organ of her life, Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving-delicate and full of life Into the eye and prospect of his soul....
• Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made he
  beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare....