"Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only"."
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"A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars."
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"[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably."
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"I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!""
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"There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel."
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"I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone."
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"A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them."
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"Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part."
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"I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing."
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"We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team."
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"She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife."
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"the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife."
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"I don't need a tank top to be a wife beater"
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"A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -- and he's a priest."
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"'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'"
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"When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her."
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"One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]"
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"When cheated, wife or husband feels the same."
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"The wife should yield in all things to her lord"
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"So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner."
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