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“A husband's interest in his wife's wardrobe will add to his understanding of her needs and desires as a woman; a wife's regard for her husband's preferences and judgment on how she looks add up to a happy marriage,”

Book:Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife

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“At first I was for taking him back to you, myself. But my wife doesn't want me to. So, as usual, we've compromised by doing what she wants. She wants him to stay right here. Next time, his crazy luck might land him in dog heaven instead of here at Sunnybank. She says she'd rather have a live chum than a dead champion. Maybe she's right. I find she's apt to be.”

Marriage Luck Compromise Dogs Right And Wrong Husbands And Wives

Book:Gray Dawn

Source: Gray Dawn

“Knowledge is many things, but it definitely is not power. “Dread” is a better word for it, I think, though I do understand how that ultimately fails as a slogan.”

Marriage Misery Tedium Husbands And Wives

Book:Notes from the Fog: Stories

Source: Notes from the Fog: Stories

“We eat in silence, listening to the rain. Both of us look forlornly at the bar, thinking that we shouldn’t, we mustn’t. On the other hand, we could simply pass out drunk here and maybe they’d take us to jail. There are beds in jail. Soap. New people to meet.”

Relationships Marriage Humor Husbands And Wives

Book:Notes from the Fog: Stories

Source: Notes from the Fog: Stories

“She felt quite friendly to her husband. He never struck her. He never abused her. He always gave her exactly the same sum of money every Saturday, whatever receipts the shop brought in. He didn't drink. He praised her cooking. But on the other hand—oh, how happy she always was when he was well out of the way and she was left alone!”

Alone Husbands Husbands And Wives

Book:A Glastonbury Romance

Source: A Glastonbury Romance

“What more passed between them I do not know. I think that the Queen told my wife more, but women will sometimes keep women’s secrets even from their husbands; though they love us, yet we are always in some sort the common enemy, against whom they join hands.”

Husbands And Wives Female Solidarity

Book:Rupert of Hentzau

Source: Rupert of Hentzau

“Helga never will admit that she is clever, yet I find she discovers from me what she wants to know, and I suspect hides successfully the small matters of which she in her wifely discretion deems I had best remain ignorant. Being thus able to manage me, she was equal to coping with the butler.”

Husbands And Wives

Book:Rupert of Hentzau

Source: Rupert of Hentzau

“Hi sir/madam My name is shanmugavel from india I wrote 190 inspirational thoughts in this book Book name : A storm in the vacuum?: Phoenix bird Available in Amazon please support”

Motivational Self Help

Book:Tamil Short stories

Source: Tamil Short stories

“She helped the hunter with the cooking as a husband helps his wife: when he had gone out to hunt and left something to stew, she would take the pot off the fire. But she never knew when to take it off; sometimes it was cooked to pieces, and she never got it right except by accident. But when the accident happened the hunter would laugh and say, "You're as good a cook as my mother!" After all, why should he want her to keep house? If you have a seal that could talk, would you want it to sweep the floor?”

Cooking Housekeeping Husbands And Wives

Book:The Animal Family

Source: The Animal Family

“Once or twice, in the first days of his marriage, he had asked himself with a slight shiver what would happen if Susy should begin to bore him. The thing had happened to him with other women as to whom his first emotions had not differed in intensity from those she inspired.”

Marriage Humor Husbands And Wives

Author:Edith Wharton

“She knew that it was not smart to address her concerns about money directly, for men despised women who confronted them in this way. She knew that the smart wife, especially one no longer willing to parlay sexual favors, would find a way to bring up matters sweetly, pouring honey all over the problem before showing it to the husband. But she was out of patience.”

Husbands And Wives Money Matters Women And Money

Book:Stealing Athena

Source: Stealing Athena

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