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Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.

he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. “After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,” he reflected; but the worst of it was that May’s pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep.

Buying flowers for his betrothed but he’s thinking about another woman and ends up getting flowers for her… this DOG

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Before that, however, he had lived much in Paris, frequented the Goncourt grenier, been advised by Maupassant not to attempt to write (even that seemed to Archer a dazzling honour!)…