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Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

Jonathan Swift
Beautiful, Enemy, Shrews
Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Miscellaneous essays”, p.234
Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.