"It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does.
~ W. Somerset Maugham ~












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