“Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.”
William Congreve The Double Dealer
Act II, scene iii
The Double Dealer (1694)
“Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are still pretty glorious.”
— Jack Kerouac, book The Dharma Bums
Variant: Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
Source: The Dharma Bums
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