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Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Proverb about the disires of maids
Our marriage - My wife
Lunar Hine
, I hasten to add, is nothing like the saying!
"Maids want for nothing but husbands, and when they have them they want everything else."
- Somerset
Ray 1768
[Ahh ... That ageless sound of sexism, or 'the battle of the sexes' as some would frame it.]
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