It would be difficult, sometimes, to determine whether constancy was an autogenous or enforced virtue.
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Never play pranks with your wife, your horse, or your razor.
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There is a thing which not gold nor favor nor even love can buy. Its true name is secret; but it is content to be called Sympathy. Accordingly,
Let no man or woman think when he or she has won wife or husband all has been won that is necessary. For,
If sympathy cannot be gained from one quarter, it will probably be sought in another.
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At the moment of the formation of a matrimonial syndicate of two, each member of this as yet unincorporated joint-stock company verily believes that each has put into the concern his whole real and personal property. Yet it is to be feared that, although
The woman, possibly, invests her whole capital, the man—often, no doubt, unwittingly to himself—retains not a few unmatured bonds and debentures. That is to say,