As to your really marrying a woman for love, I don't believe you are fool enough for that." "Oh, Madeline!" exclaimed her sister.
"And oh, Charlotte!" said the other.
"You don't mean to say that no man can love a woman unless he be a fool ?" "I mean very much the same thing--that any man who is willing to sacrifice his interest to get possession of a pretty face is a fool.
Pretty faces are to be had cheaper than that.

I hate your mawkish sentimentality, Lotte.

You know as well as I do in what way husbands and wives generally live together; you know how far the warmth of conjugal affection can withstand the trial of a bad dinner, of a rainy day, or of the least privation which poverty brings with it; you know what freedom a man claims for himself, what slavery he would exact from his wife if he could! And you know also how wives generally obey.

Marriage means tyranny on one side and deceit on the other.

I say that a man is a fool to sacrifice his interests for such a bargain.