“Matrimony must be like a sound flogging, for it makes the veriest block-heads learn something.”

—  Alessandro Pepoli

Il matrimonio bisogna che sia un vero castigo, poichè fa diventar savi anche i matti.
La Scomessa, Act III., Sc. IV. — (Desiderio.). Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 316.

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Il matrimonio bisogna che sia un vero castigo, poiché fa diventar savi anche i matti. (Act III., Sc. IV.

Desiderio).
La Scommessa
Variant: Il matrimonio bisogna che sia un vero castigo, poichè fa diventar savi anche i matti.
Source: Citato in Harbottle, p. 316.

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