Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

Coward, Noël. Private Lives. Directed by Noël Coward. Performed by Noël Coward and Adrianne Allen and Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier. 1930, King's Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 3.

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