“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.