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An obedient wife commands her husband.

— Thomas Fuller Gnomologia (1732)

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Always tell the Truth: where it is not loved, it is respected and feared.

Religion is the best armour in the world, but the worst cloak.

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God give me a rich husband, though he be an ass.

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