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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).