“Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.”

— William Congreve , The Old Bachelor

Act V, scene viii. Compare: "Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure", William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act iii, scene 2
The Old Bachelor (1693)

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British writer 1670–1729

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“Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.”