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    Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
    Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
    —17th-century English proverb, pt. 1, quoted in Isaac d’Israeli, Curiosities of Literature (1834)