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Excerpts

   from Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791.  [p.1236].

   JOHNSON: "... between a man and his wife,
      a husband's infidelity is nothing. They
      are connected by children, by fortune,
      by serious considerations of
      community. Wise married women don't
      trouble themselves about the infidelity
      in their husbands."
   BOSWELL. "To be sure there is a great
      difference between the offence of
      infidelity in a man and that of his
      wife."
   JOHNSON. "The difference is boundless. The
      man imposes no bastards upon his wife"

Contents

The table of contents reads almost like a script for married life.

       Questions                7
       Proposals               48
       Nuptials               104
       Domesticity            152
       Complications          189
       Accommodations         224
       Celebrations           266
       Reverberations         308