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“It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 108d2582c3d6659f1e00f0430c042a9c992a9cd9e625719476e3c4e9d9476fc1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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