I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, without impropriety, kiss his wife on Sunday and possibly, if he have a chance, some other sweet-faced woman.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.
When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
We don't kiss in public. It's not done.
I do wonder why modern society has made monogamy the one and only option. In England, it's always, 'Are you with him, or him?' Perish the thought it might be both.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.