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Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

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Simonides of Ceos
Elegist
Epigrammatist
Lyric Poet
Poet
Writer
Simonides of Keos
Earth
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Humans
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Bitterest
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Wife

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