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“...many men choose a wife amid the deft-fingered clerks in preference to the society misses. The woman clerk has studied the value of concentration, learned the lesson that incites to work when a burden bears heavily upon her strength. She knows the word of self- reliance, and the fine courage that springs from the consciousness that a good result has been accomplished by a well-directed effort.”
—Clara (Marquise)
“Once, when lying in bed with no paper at hand, he began to sketch the idea for a new machine on the back of his wifes nightgown. He asked her if she knew the figure he was drawing. Yes, she answered, the figure of a fool.”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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