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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Epicharmus

Marriage is like to casting dice. If chance bring you a virtuous and good-tempered wife, your lot is happy. If you gain instead a gadding, gossiping, and thriftless queen, no wife is yours, but everlasting plague in woman’s garb; the habitable globe holds not so dire a torment anywhere.