“ It is not your feeble easy husbands who are loved best in the world ”
William Makepeace Thackeray, The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844). copy citation
| Author | William Makepeace Thackeray |
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| Source | The Luck of Barry Lyndon |
| Topic | love husband |
| Date | 1844 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4558/pg4558-images.html |
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“(as occurred sometimes) there was nothing she would not do to propitiate me further; and she would be as absurd and violent in her expressions of fondness as, at other moments, she would be in her demonstrations of hatred. It is not your feeble easy husbands who are loved best in the world; according to my experience of it. I do think the women like a little violence of temper, and think no worse of a husband who exercises his authority pretty smartly. I had got my Lady into such a terror about me, that when I smiled, it was quite an era of happiness to her;”
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