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[F]or vanity disappointed will always find an enemy on whom to bestow the utmost hatred and dislike; and the woman who hath been thus entangled in her own snares will generally find that enemy in the person of her husband. As from him (when her lover) arose all her pleasure, so from him now flows all her disappointment.

Sarah Fielding

Sarah Fielding (1710–1768), British novelist, and Jane Collier. Portia, in The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable, part 1, sc. 3 (1754).

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