Quote by Jeremy Taylor
Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curio

Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another mans enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor. – Jeremy Taylor

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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not. – Jeremy Taylor

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Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. – Jeremy Taylor

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One mans folly is often another mans wife. – Helen Rowland

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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. – Marcel Proust

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Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives. – Marilyn Monroe

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You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so. – Sir John Vanbrugh

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