"I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner."

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Source : Arnold Edwin Needham, Sarah Fielding (1943). “The Life and Works of Sarah Fielding”

Sarah Fielding

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