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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.

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!)…

Tell me what you do all day," he said, crossing his arms under his tilted-back head, and pushing his hat forward to screen the sun-dazzle.

“a novel called 'Middlemarch,' as to which there had lately been interesting things said in the reviews".

He was purse proud.

He realized he did not know her epistolary style and it might run to exaggeration.