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A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.
Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
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- Author or tradition
- Samuel Johnson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1709–1784)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 170 · printed citation: Johnson · subject: Matrimony
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