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Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress

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1745 letter by Benjamin Franklin offering satirical reasons for preferring older women as mistresses over younger ones

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"Marriage is the proper Remedy. It is the most natural State of Man, and therefore the State in which you are most likely to find solid Happiness. Your Reasons against entering into it at present, appear to me not well-founded."
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