In truth I must recommend to all young men that they find a wife. Not that they marry, though they may do that as well, but that they find a merry, pleasing wife, with whom they may delight the hours. For a wife, being married already, will leave a man his freedom and will not harry a man to join her in wedded union. Nor will they play such games as coy virgins play, saying "nay" one day and "maybe" the next; and because wives have knowledge of the world, they will know how to please, and how in his turn the youth should please them. A wife may therefore be part of a man's education, and certainly the most pleasurable part thereof.
I have treasured all my wives, and warm memories of them take up a special place next to my heart.
- the main character in Walter Jon Williams' Quillifer the Knight, p.86
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