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Some men, either unable or unwilling to mount
themselves into their saddles through infirmity or laziness,
teach their horses to fall upon their knees, and in that
posture to receive their riders. In like manner there are
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some persons who, having married young ladies not less
considerable for the nobility of their birth than their wealthy
dowries, take little care themselves to improve the advantages of such a splendid conjunction, but with a severe
moroseness labor to depress and degrade their wives,
proud of the mastery and vaunting in domestic tyranny.
Whereas in this case it becomes a man to use the reins of
government with as equal regard to the quality and dignity
of the woman as to the stature of the horse.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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