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Wife Quotes by Wallace Stegner
- [I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
- A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed assistant scoutmaster whose…
- In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.
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