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“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)
“But the house of the prudent countryman will be, of course, a place of honest manners; and Demeter Thesmophoros is the guardian of married life, the deity of the discretion of wives. She is therefore the founder of civilised order.”
—Walter Pater (18391894)
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