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Virtue and Vice
157. Cleanliness
I [Piozzi] asked him upon this, if he ever disputed with his
wife? (I had heard that he loved her passionately.)
"Perpetually (said he): my wife had a particular reverence for
cleanliness, and desired the praise of neatness in her dress and
furniture, as many ladies do, till they become troublesome to
their best friends, slaves to their own besoms, and only sigh for
the hour of sweeping their husbands out of the house as dirt and
useless lumber: a clean floor is so comfortable, she
would say sometimes, by way of twitting; till at last I told
her, that I thought we had had talk enough about the
floor, we would now have a touch at the
ceiling."
Piozzi: Anecdotes
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