“Reformed rakes often make the best husbands.”
Judith McNaught (1944) American writer
Source: Something Wonderful
“Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes
Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes;
Antiquity and birth are needless here;
‘Tis impudence and money makes a peer.”
Pt. I, l. 360-363. <br class="br"> The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)
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