An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
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For the first time she was vaguely perceiving that life is everlasting movement.
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But her correctness was of the finer sort, and had no air of being studied or achieved conduct would never offer her a problem to be settled from a book of rules, for the rules were so deep within her that she was unconscious of them.
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The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
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