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— Samuel Johnson"Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach."
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The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men. ... As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use.
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