"You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her."
"The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only, since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women."
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Source: Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”
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