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• When the candles are out all women are fair. -- Plutarch
• When the candles are out all women are fair. -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Conjugal Precep
• When the lights are out, all women are fair. -- Plutarch
• When all candles bee out, all cats be gray. -- John Heywood (c.
  1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. v...
• When the lights are out...all women are beautiful.
• There 's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act ii, Sc. 1...
• A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste?
  Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made....
• Common to all battered women: Don't know when to shut up!
• Women, when they are not in love, have all the cold blood of an experienced attorney. -- Balzac