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But the house of the prudent countryman will be, of course, a place of honest manners; and Demeter Thesmophoros is the guardian of married life, the deity of the discretion of wives. She is therefore the founder of civilised order. - Walter Pater
Attribution: Walter Pater (1839–1894), British writer, educator. originally published in Fortnightly Review (Jan. 1876). “The Myth of Demeter and Persephone,” pt. I, p. 108, repr. In Greek Studies: A Series of Essays, Macmillan (1895). Posthumously prepared for the press by Charles L. Shadwell.

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