“He heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself.”

—  Max Beerbohm

Source: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. VII

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