Alexander Pope Quotes About Wife
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy; But wives, a random choice, untried they take; They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake; Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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