“Oh, moment of sweet peril, perilous sweet! When woman joins herself to man.”

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

The Wanderer, Prologue, Stanza 1, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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