"The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife."
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"If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam."
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"If only I had the influence with my wife and children that I have in some other quarters!"
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"Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife."
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"My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world."
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"An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it."
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"There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will."
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"I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'"
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"May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose."
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"Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons."
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"Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned."
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"Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible."
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"I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private."
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"A man must have something to grumble about; and if he cant complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness."
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"I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily."
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"I crave fit disposition for my wife; Due reference of place, and exhibition; With such accommodation, and besort, As levels with her breeding."
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"The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th."
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"Wives should be kissed - not heard."
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"The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress."
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"I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash."
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