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"Your Women of honour, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, / and tis scandal they would avoid, not men."
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The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written by William Wycherley and first performed in 1675. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play reflects an aristocratic and anti-Puritan ideology, and was controversial for its sexual explicitness even in its own time. The title contains a lewd pun with regard to the first syllable of "country". It is based on several plays by Molièr
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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; to taste the town the better when a man returns."
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"Tis my maxim, hes a fool that marries; but hes a greater that does not marry a fool."
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"Methinks wit is more necessary than beauty, and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome / woman agreeable without it."
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"A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, Gathers together more gazers than if it shined out."
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"[Mr. Pinchwife tells Mrs. Pinchwife of the pleasures of the town]"
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