“He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often too quick to act: he would try never to crush her, never to overwhelm her or bend her to his will, but if she did not demand only the best from him, it would happen. It might happen. Possibly.”
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“But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.”
“For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.”
“Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.”
“Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing." These is my words”