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Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit. - Honore de Balzac The widow who has been bereft of her children may seem in after years no whit less placid, no whit less serenely gladsome; nay, more gladsome than the woman whose blessings are still round her. I am amazed to see how wounds heal. - Charles Buxton May widows wed as often as they can, And ever for the better change their man; And some devouring plague pursue their lives, Who will not well be govern'd by their wives. - John Dryden Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices. - Benjamin Franklin The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. - John Gay Why are those tears? why droops your head Is then your other husband dead? Or does a worse disgrace betide? Hath no one since his death applied? - John Gay A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man. - Horace Greeley A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked. - Alphonse Karr (Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr) Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch. - Jean de la Bruyere Young widows still bide their time. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power. - Gloria Steinem
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