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“A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

“Prince William's pregnant wife, Kate Middleton, is past her due date. Doctors may have to induce labor. To speed up the birth, doctors have been telling the baby, 'Come on out. You will never have to work a day in your life.'”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“President Obama and his wife are going to Kenya. Donald Trump said, 'While you're there, pick up your birth certificate.'”

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Author:David Letterman

“The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife: And there, well to discharge it, does require Equality of years, of birth, of fortune; For beauty being poor, and not cried up By birth or wealth, can truly mix with neither. And wealth, when there's such difference in years, And fair descent, must make the yoke uneasy.”

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Book:Elizabethan Drama II

Source: Elizabethan Drama II

“The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.”

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Book:A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation

Source: A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation

“Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.”

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Author:Francois Rabelais

“O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after childbirth! O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!”

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Book:Poems and new poems

Source: Poems and new poems

“Being pregnant is a very boring six months. I am not particularly maternal. It's an occupational hazard of being a wife.”

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Author:Anne, Princess Royal

“An Irishman's wife gave birth to twins. Her husband wanted to know who the other man was.”

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Author:Frank Carson