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In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.

Source: Captain Adolf, in The Father, act 3, sc. 7.
-- J August Strindberg, (Jan 22 1849-1912), Swedish playwright, novelist, short-story writer; He combined psychology and Naturalism in a new kind of European drama that evolved into Expressionist drama, e.g. The Father, 1887.

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