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“George listened to the radio and wondered whether that dear child Nancy would allow him to give her a fur coat. She was very proud, he knew. He didn't want to offend her. Still, she had complained of the cold. That tweed coat of hers was a cheap affair; it didn't keep the cold out. He could put it so that she wouldn't mind, perhaps...
They must have another evening out soon. It was a pleasure to take a girl like that to a smart restaurant. He could see several young fellows were envying him. She was uncommonly pretty. And she liked him. To her, as she had told him, he didn't seem a bit old.
He looked up and caught his wife's eye. He felt suddenly guilty, which annoyed him. What a narrow-minded, suspicious woman Maria was! She grudged him any little bit of happiness.
He switched off the radio and went to bed.”
― Agatha Christie, The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife - a Parker Pyne Short Story

“The world's a huge thing; it is a great price for a small vice.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“An honest wife is better than a shrewd mistress.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Bess came out of her room. She had changed into a dress which had to be hooked up the back and I was elected to hook it up. Though she had a strokeable-looking back, my hands were careful not to wander. The easy ones were nearly always trouble: frigid or nympho. schizy or commercial or alcoholic, sometimes all five at once. Their nicely wrapped gifts of themselves often turned out to be homemade bombs, or fudge with arsenic in it.”
― Ross Macdonald, Black Money

“According to (Johnny's first wife) Jody Morrill Wolcott, “When I wanted to go with John once [to a Hollywood function], he said to me, â€�Why take a ham sandwich to a banquet?’ â€� Random cruelty, as such, tended to ride shotgun—most notoriously—with his drinking bouts.”
― Bill Zehme, Carson the Magnificent: An Intimate Portrait