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Oh, that we had a home!!—an unassuming wife—placens et tacens uxor; an unpretending house, with a comfortable guest-chamber; and no noiseless nursery, unfendered and uncared for!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various