Quick Quotes 4. The following is taken from Max O’Rell’s Jonathan and his Continent (1889):
The wives of men with middle-class incomes imitate the luxury of the millionaire’s wife. I expected to find it so: in a Democratic country the frogs all try to swell into oxen. They puff themselves out until they burst; or, rather, until their husbands burst.
In France always, and in England when he will let her, a wife keeps an eye on her husband’s interests. In America, she often lays hands on his capital.
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