Clever Slave

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    A clever wife often sleeps with a stupid husband.
    Chinese proverb.

    England and France, Spain and Portugal, Gold Coast and Slave Coast, all front on this private sea; but no bark from them has ventured out of sight of land, though it is without doubt the direct way to India.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)