Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's
warling.

She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's
warling.

He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.

He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.

So bent on self-sanctifying,--
That she never thought of trying
To save her poor husband as well.

So bent on self-sanctifying,--
That she never thought of trying
To save her poor husband as well.

In thy face have I seen the eternal.

In thy face have I seen the eternal.

Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead,
To find such numbers who will serve instead:
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Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead,
To find such numbers who will serve instead:
And in whatever state a man be thrown,
'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.

A good wife makes a good husband

A good wife makes a good husband

You know I met you,
Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,
With all the read more

You know I met you,
Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,
With all the tenderness of wifely love.