“The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.”
Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
“There's no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding.”
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Henry James
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The Portrait of a Lady
Source: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XV.
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