“In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.”
Source: Crossing to Safety
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As quoted in The Whole duty of a woman: female writers in seventeenth century England, p. 157, by Angeline Goreau. Editorial Dial Press, 1985. ISBN 0385278780.