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Genius and virtue are everywhere, but we must
search for common sense.
Woman is called a composite creature, but man
is tenfold more composite. When a man has had the
whole world catering to everything in his make-up,
except his love of virtue, he is not to be made abidingly happy with nothing but that quality satisfied.
He cannot suddenly and permanently change his
whole mental structure.
Be satisfied, then, if your husband gives up the liberties and vices which the world allows a bachelor,
but do not ask him to relinquish the courtesies and
recreations which are every man's privilege.
Drive Suspicion from your door, and install Confidence in its place. Cultivate self-esteem and self-confidence, and think, act, talk and live so sweetly and
lovingly that rivalry is impossible.
Make the new life a holiday, not a term of imprisonment. A very good woman who has no human
weakness in her nature, is sometimes the devil's tool
to drive men to drink.
Absolute loyalty, absolute morality, absolute honor
and cleanliness of life, every woman has the right to
ask of her husband. The best of his devotion and the
larger portion of his leisure should be given her voluntarily. But to make him a willing captive should be
woman's art, not to make him a life prisoner, and the
home a reformatory, and the wife a suspicious warden,
always imagining that the prisoner is planning escape.
The good wife must possess other qualities besides
goodness, to render her marriage with a mere man
successful.
Common sense and tact must be two strands of the
rope to make it strong enough to act as an anchor for
