Three in five wives said they would end their marriages if they discovered an affair.

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Sechele had five wives, and Livingstone insisted that to become a Christian he needed get rid of the "superfluous" ones.

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He spins an extraordinary tale of great industrial wealth, compulsive acquisition of art, decorated with complicated sub-plots involving serial adultery and divorce. (His failure to decide whether this is industrial history, art history or good gossip must explain the meaningless title.) Thyssen had five wives, though Mr Litchfield's account of these marriages was at the mercy of Thyssen's memory, which was impaired by alcoholism and the arrogance of wealth.

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