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  • You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.

    -Thomas Otway
      Titus and Berenice, prologue.

  • I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.

    - Sylvia Plath
      Diary entry,13 Nov. Collected in Aurelia Schober Plath (ed) Letters Home by Sylvia Plath,'Diary Supplement' (1949).

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