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Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Marriage
Homer, Odyssey 6.182-185 (tr. S.H. Butcher and A. Lang):
There is nothing mightier and nobler than when man and wife are of one heart and mind in a house, a grief to their foes, and to their friends great joy, but their own hearts know it best.