Jerome K. Jerome book Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
"On Being Idle".
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“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”
— Francis Bacon, book Essays
Of Marriage and Single Life
Essays (1625)
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