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“Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Antigone. Frag. 164.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 202af1b632883a906f1a8b9d6d6c5a24331061939f2c20bbe5fdf40a79265cce
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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