When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man i…

Samuel Johnson
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When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was
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When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

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