"As love without esteem, is volatile and capricious; esteem without love, is languid and cold. I am afraid, that many me'n, whose wives have possessed their esteem, have yet lavished their fortune and their fondness upon a mistress; and that the love of others, however ardent, has been quickly alienated, because it was not dignified and supported by esteem."
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Jonathan Swift in: Lionel Thomas Berguer The Adventurer, T. and J. Allman, 1823, p. 220.
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