It is not necessary to be great to be happy; it is not necessary to be rich to be just and generous and to have a heart filled with divine affection. No matter whether you are rich or poor, treat your wife as though she were a splendid flower, and she will fill your life with perfume and with joy.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator

Lecture (1877-01-31) “The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child,” Case Hall, Boston
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