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William Wycherley was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.

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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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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

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He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

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I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

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Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

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Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

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Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

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