"A wife, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail, should keep within her door; But not, like snail, with silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back."
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"Good Wives", reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 869
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Walsham How
William Walsham How (December 13 , 1823 – August 10 , 1897) was an English Anglican bishop.
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