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Walsham How
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“A wife, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail, should keep within her door; But not, like snail, with silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back.”
Walsham How (1823–1897) said by 1897 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Good Wives", reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 869