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24 Though Solomon's description of a wife and good woman, may be thought too mean and mechanical for this refined generation; yet certain it is, that the business of a family is the most profitable and the most honourable study they can employ themselves in. Women should be acquainted, that no beauty hath any charms, but the inward one of the mind, and that a gracefulness in their manners is much more engaging than that of their persons; that meekness and modesty are the true and lasting ornaments': For Me that hath these, is qualified as she ought to be for the management of a family, for the education of children, for an affection to her husband, and submitting to a prudent way of living. These only are the charms that render wives amiable and give them the best title to man's respect.

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