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With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

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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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Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.

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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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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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Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.

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I don't know the facts of when Joe Soptic's wife got sick or when she died.

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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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It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

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You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate, Take this of me, Kate of my consolation; Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs, Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.

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UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.

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It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

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The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

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Walking helps me a lot to feel alive, and I do this every single day, my wife and I. We have long conversations about nature, and we also walk silently, just contemplating.

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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

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I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.

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A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.

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A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

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A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

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