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The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
Approximate author period: c. 1706 AD · early modern
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- Jonathan Swift
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- Approximate author period: c. 1706 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
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