“I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.”
Thomas Shadwell (1642–1692) English poet and playwright
Act III, sc. i.
The True Widow (1679)
“I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.”
Seward, 617
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana
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