There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

1904. [A description of Southern California. Harvard UP 1950.

Charles Dudley Warner (September 12 1829 – October 20 1900) was an American essayist novelist and friend of Mark Twain with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.