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“He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of Marriage and Single Life.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- dc023be16a7cf8f6d84454a581396f73a6988082e7b039cbb51689ed09911a08
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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