But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everyth…

George Eliot
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But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that men would be so, and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks. ✨ George Eliot (1998). Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, OUP Oxford
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