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“my candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but sh my foes and oh my friends it gives a lovely light” meaning ?

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In the Eighteenth Century the candle burning at both ends symbolized a husband at one end, and a wife on the other, an interpretation that matched Eighteenth Century society's perception of a woman's role.

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