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25 ON MARRIAGE
Apparently when a girl is ‘picking a husband’ she should go for brains, not money! If she chooses money, ‘she'll have a high time for a little while, ending in divorce’ . If brains, ‘the start will be hard, but she is likely to end up with a happy home she helped to build…’
DEFINING IDEA…
Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finished saying it.
~ HELEN ROWLAND, US JOURNALIST AND HUMOURIST
Indeed, Collier adds that, ‘money ought to be a consideration in marriage – but never the consideration’. Sadly that's about the extent of his hot tips when it comes to choosing a partner in life. One can only assume that ‘beauty’ is interchangeable with ‘money’ when a man is picking a wife! ‘When it's a choice of money or brains – take the brains every time. Possessions are of slight importance compared to mind.’