Love, it is to be feared, is often enough a bargain in which the woman comes off second-best. For
A woman gives herself; man accepts the gift.
Rarely, if ever, does a man give himself. He cannot. His work, his play, his politics, his friends, his club—these are matters to him highly important.
To a woman the only highly important things are: her husband and her home.
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A woman rules until she tries to rule,—which will be an enigma to many.
Out of a wife's obedience will grow her governance; never out of her dominance.—Those who think this sheer nonsense, are welcome to think so. But it is worth thinking about.
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A man ought to rule his wife. Granted. But he cannot do this unless he rules himself. The Colonel of a Regiment cannot command if he himself breaks the King's or the State's Regulations. And
An uncontrolled wife deems her husband indifferent—or weak. The number of husbands who, though they think they rule, yet in reality are ruled, would astonish—not their wives, but themselves.