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“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of Marriage and Single Life.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7a5cc36b204f1f8e4c2119c31244a32aa3626a318fcbed24a6256818d0ad6289
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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