The Connoisseur 82 (1755) [ Practices ]
… every gentleman, not to hold any commerce with such people, whose acquaintance he cannot enjoy, without giving up his estate. The next person, whom you ought to beware of, is a DRUNKARD; one that takes an unaccountable pleasure in sapping … one much your inferior in birth and fortune, though "endowed with every accomplishment requisite" to make the marrriage state happy." In these hasty and unequal matches it sometimes happens, that mutual love gives way to mutual reproaches. …
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