My parents told me to marry for money, ' said her husband. 'But I chose the love of a strong woman.'' And look what trouble I turned out to be, ' she said.

Helen Simonson
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In this quote from a story by Oscar Wilde, a woman describes her husband as follows: He is bad tempered, untruthful, and lazy. She then says that he might have turned out to be all of these things if she had married for money. If she had married for money, she would have been just like all of the rest. Her true love was strong enough to overcome any faults.

Source: The Summer Before The War

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