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Excerpts

   Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791.  [1236]. 
	etext: fullbooks.com
   JOHNSON: "... between a man and his wife, a husband's
      infidelity is nothing. They are connected by
      children, by fortune, by serious considerations of
      community. Wise married women don't trouble
      themselves about the infidelity in their husbands."
   BOSWELL. "To be sure there is a great difference 
      between the offence of infidelity in a man and that 
      of his wife."
   JOHNSON. "The difference is boundless. The man imposes 
      no bastards upon his wife"

Contents

The table of contents reads almost like a script for married life. 

       Questions                7
       Proposals               48
       Nuptials               104
       Domesticity            152
       Complications          189
       Accommodations         224
       Celebrations           266
       Reverberations         308