Vol. 4, letter 17.
Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754)
“Dramatists have always made fun of the friendship between a husband and his wife's lover. But is it so comic? These two men undoubtedly have more to say to one another than the lover and his mistress. They get on perfectly well, and it is often the husband's presence that makes endurable the intolerable boredom of certain affairs of this sort. Cases have been known where a break occurred almost immediately following the husband's withdrawal from the scene.”
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship
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