"Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life."
— Wives

January 1, 1970

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Simonides, Iambic frag. 6, quoting Hesiod, Works and Days, 702f. The Spectator, vol. 2, no. 209 (30 October 1711), p. 195