English Proverb

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

    Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
    —18th-century English proverb.