I Have Heard A Well-built Woman Compared In Her Motion To A Ship Under Sail, Yet I Would Advise No Wise Man To Be Her Owner If Her Freight Be Nothing But What She Carries Between Wind And Water.

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I have heard a well-built woman compared in her motion to a ship under
sail, yet I would advise no wise man to be her owner if her freight be
nothing but what she carries between wind and water.
-- Francis Osborne
(advising his son not to marry a beautiful but poor girl)

Never eat a heavily sugared doughnut before you go on TV.
-- John Cheever (to his daughter Susan)

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