"She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's warling."
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The Miser's Daughter (1842) bk. 3, ch. 15. Swift, Polite Conversation (1738) dialogue 1. Also in Camden's Remaines, 5th ed. (1600) p. 293. Ram Alley, act 2, sc. 1 of Hazlitt's Dodsley, Old Plays. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) p. 868. See Wife
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William Harrison Ainsworth
William Harrison Ainsworth (4 February 1805 β 3 January 1882) was an English historical novelist.
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