Quote by William Wycherley
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town,

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away. – William Wycherley

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For your own sake you should give her a new gown; for variety of dresses rouses desire, and makes an old mistress seem every day a new one. – William Wycherley

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Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. – William Wycherley

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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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According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesnt mean anything to most men. But I wouldnt date a man who slept around. Absolutely not. Ive divorced people for that. – Joan Collins

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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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