Nets to Catch the Wind (1921), A Crowded Trolley Car
“Rudolph Reed was oaken.
His wife was oaken too.
And his two good girls and his good little man
Oakened as they grew.”
The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
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His wife was oaken too.
And his two good girls and his good little man
Oakened as they grew." by Gwendolyn Brooks?
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“The worth of a wife is a man’s good fortune;
His jewels are his good children.”
Thiruvalluvar
book
Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse VI.10
Tirukkural
“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
Samuel Johnson
(1709–1784) English writer
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
“The scoundrel has his good qualities, and the good man his weaknesses.”
Le scélérat a ses vertus, comme l'honnête homme a ses faiblesses.
Letter 32: Madame de Volanges to Madame la Présidente Tourvel. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_32
Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
