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“A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Meleager. Frag. 525.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 72149db381cd45b87c59f9762c702d4ddea0611e63822868f846f3274fcb417b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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