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Show DON'T MARRY A GENIUS. History Shows Men of Extraordinary Talent Neglected Their Wives. It is fine to be a genius. But it isn't always quite as pleasant to be hlE wife. Here are a few cases that seem to provs It: Shakespeare's married mar-ried life is supposed to have been miserable. mis-erable. We know that Milton's was. Bernard PalDnsey's wife starved while her husbandburned up her furniture to further his pottery inventions. Neither of Napoleon's two wives was happy or well treated. Julius Caesar was a notoriously bad husband. Henry of Navarre was a worse one. BjVon's wife was made wretchedly unhappy by her husband. So was Shelley's. Laurence Stern's wife was neglected, as was Boswell's. Nelson's wife was forced to leave him. These are but a handful of Instances out of hundreds. |