Quotation by William Congreve

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure:
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
William Congreve (1670–1729), British dramatist. Sharper, in The Old Bachelor, act 5, sc. 1 (1693).

to which Setter replies, "Some by experience find those words misplaced: At leisure married, they repent in haste."
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