Married persons should avoid petty quarrellling. “What fermentations and heats often arise from breaking of china, disordering a room, dinner not being ready at a precise hour, and a thousand other such impertinent bagatelles. These sort of matrimonial squabbles put one in mind of a little venomous insect they have in the West Indies, like a gnat, who when they bite create a great itching, which if scratched, raises an inflamation so malignant that a leg has been lost by it, and sometimes mortifications ensue that have been attended with death. — Benjamin Franklin, “Reflections on Courtship and Marriage,” 1746
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