The art of taking a wife

The art of taking a wife

TO THE IMPATIENT, WHO WISH TO MARRY TOO SOON; TO THE LIBERTINES, WHO TAKE A WIFE TOO LATE; TO THE TIMID WHO, WAVERING BETWEEN YES AND NO, END BY NOT TAKING ONE AT ALL, This Book is Dedicated BY A MAN WHO HAS ALWAYS BLESSED HIS FIRST MARRIAGE, AND HOPES TO BLESS THE SECOND; BELIEVING THIS SEXUAL CONTRACT TO BE THE LEAST EVIL ONE OF THE TIES WHICH BIND THE MAN TO THE WOMAN, IN SPITE OF ITS MANY DEFECTS AND DANGERS. For the majority of men, and for at least thirty years of their lives, love is the strongest necessity, and governs them like a tyrant with no other curb than the wretched brake of written codes, which they do not read, and of social conventionalities, which they can easily silence by employing hypocrisys mask; an hypocrisy, let it be well understood, well dressed, well curled, and well educated. It would seem as if these three ways of loving were totally distinct, one from the other; in fact, that any one would exclude the others, and that they would stand in direct opposition to each other. But when hypocrisy is at the helm of the vessel which bears us over the great sea of life, it contrives so ably and so cleverly, as to enable us to enjoy all three methods at one moment, and, while we are sailing between rocks free of danger or shipwreck, it affords us, as it were, all the delights of a voyage in a beautiful archipelago, where islands and [Pg ix] islets seem to meet and touch each other; and where land, mountains, and scenery all form a bright, picturesque, and beautiful picture. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 57042
Author: Mantegazza, Paolo
Release Date: Apr 25, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English