“The worth of a wife is a man’s good fortune;
His jewels are his good children.”
Verse VI.10
Tirukkural
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Thiruvalluvar 27
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As A Man Thinketh (1902), Serenity
Context: The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows how to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.
The Relapse, Act III, sc. ii (1697)
“Any brother of mine and I make one person, as do a good man and his good wife.”
Mîn bruodr und ich daz ist ein lîp,
als ist guot man unt des guot wîp.
Bk. 15, st. 740, line 29; p. 369.
Parzival
Variant: It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Quoted in the "Apophthegms, Sentiments, Opinions and Occasional Reflections" of Sir John Hawkins (1787-1789) in Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. II, p. 11, edited by George Birkbeck Hill
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 191.
“Even children followed with endearing wile,
And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 183.