How to be Happy Though Married - Hardcover

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9781908402585: How to be Happy Though Married
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 190840258X ISBN 13: 9781908402585
Verlag: Old House Books, 2013

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The bounteous pleasures of married life have been endured by stoical, ingenious men and women for millennia. 'How to be Happy Though Married' is a compendium of their hard-won wisdom, offering advice for any conceivable conjugal conundrum, from the potential of a wife to wander (you might consider stealing her shoes, a la the Ancient Greeks) to the avoidance of a drunk husband's amorous advances. Why suffer or rejoice alone when this book revealing the advice, observations and witty rejoinders of Jane Austen, Plutarch, Shakespeare, Trollope and Einstein could be your constant companion?

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Excerpt from How to be Happy Though Married

Chapter One: The Pleasures of Marriage
 
"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony."—Jane Austen, c.1816
 
“Romantic love is a species of drunkenness – even dullards are aware of this; they are aware of it when they are not in love, and either forget it or disregard it when they are.”—The Art of Making a Perfect Husband, 1929
 
 “There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.”—Anthony Trollope, 1858
 

Chapter Two: The Pains of Marriage
 
“There are three things that drive a good man from home: a roofless house, a smoky chimney, and a quarrelsome woman.”—Medieval peasant proverb
 
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. “—Michel de Montaigne, c.1580
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“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”—Albert Einstein
 
Chapter Three: Hints for Husbands
 
“According to the old custom, Egyptian women did not wear shoes; this was so that they should spend all day at home. With most women, if you take away their gilded shoes and bracelets and anklets, their purple dresses and their pearls, they too will stay at home.”
—Plutarch
 
“One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life...
Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
”—Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

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Verlag
Old House Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
190840258X
ISBN 13 
9781908402585
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
144
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