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“I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and commonplace. But I loved you. I knew...”
“I'll have no husband, if you be not he.”
“It was the ring on the left hand that people at the Old Girls' Reunion looked for. Often, in fact nearly always, it was an uninteresting ring, sometimes no more than the plain gold band or the very...”
“When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming ...”
“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”
“Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever?Women ar...”
“For this decision, too, he had submitted to the overwhelming force of Sharons personality, whose longings and needs seemed inalienable rights, whereas Marcuss were merely whims.”
“Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political a...”
“All husbands are alike but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.”
“A good husband should be deaf and a good wife blind.”
“Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it.”
“A man should be taller older heavier uglier and hoarser than his wife.”
“As the husband is the wife is.”
“For this decision, too, he had submitted to the overwhelming force of Sharon’s personality, whose longings and needs seemed inalienable rights, whereas Marcus’s were merely whims.”
“Men are April when they woo December when they wed.”
