“The husband is not liable for the criminal conduct of his wife.”
Lockwood v. Coysgarne (1764), 3 Burr. Part IV. 1681.
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“If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.”
Sholom Bayis, 1889. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 153.

“I'm not sorry for stealing my husband from his wife.”
Katie Hopkins: " I'm Not Sorry For Stealing My Husband From His Wife http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/06/katie-hopkins_n_3711079.html", at huffingtonpost.co.uk, posted: 06/08/20.
After admitting on The Apprentice That she had had an affair with Mark Cross who she knew was married, Hopkins clarified that she had no remorse for this, causing Cross to divorce his wife and eventually marrying him.

Interview with the Chicago Times, Feb. 14, 1881.

“The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.”

Source: The Limits of State Action (1792), Ch. 3

“The husband and the wife must be equal.”
Le mari et la femme doivent-être égaux.
[Gracchus Babeuf avec les Egaux, Jean-Marc Shiappa, Les éditions ouvrières, 1991, 44, 27082 2892-7, ; Letter from François Noël Babeuf to Dubois de Fosseux, June 1786]
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