How to be happy though married--Irene

by Irene
Most people love books, and each people like different books. I love the book name which is How To Be Happy Though Married. I like read it because it has several reasons: the pleasures of marriage, the pains of marriage, hints for husbands and hints for wives.
First of all, the pleasures of marriage. Woman is better than wisdom, and nothing is better than a good woman. Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony. Romantic loves is a species of drunkenness, even dullards are aware of this, they are aware of when they are not in love. There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife. Woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. Woman and man is different. There has an addition to happiness a good wife makes. Such a one is the best companion in prosperity, and in adversity the surest friend; the greatest assistance in business, the only lawful and comfortable means by which she can have issue, and the great remedy against incontinence. Matrimony is respectable.
Second, the pains of marriage. Marriage is the tomb of love. By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you will become happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher. Bigamy is having one wife too many, and monogamy is just one wife. Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The most dangerous of infernal machines. Husband and wife should no more fight. I think marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. In fact, they are both disappointed. Finally, there are three things that drive a good man from home: a roofless house, a smoky chimney, and a quarrelsome woman.
Finally, hints for husbands and wives. Don't get a bad husband; who compares wife unfavourably with mother or other wives, who publicly praises bachelor days and regrets having married, who belches without apology or blow nose at table, and who teases wife fatness, slowness, etc. Also don't get a bad wife; who eats onions, radishes or garlic before a date or going to bed. Who wears pajamas while cooking. Who fails to wash top of milk bottle before opening it. Who puts her cold feet on husband at night to warm them.
In conclusion, I wish I have a happy marriage.