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As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Good
Wears
Pants
General
Marriage
Family
Woman
Right
Thing

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