Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.
Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.47
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.