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The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men. ... As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use.

Emily James Smith Putnam

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Emily James Smith Putnam
Age: 78 †
Born: 1865
Born: April 15
Died: 1944
Died: January 1
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Classical Scholar
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Canandaigua
New York
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