THE CYNICAL VIEW.
W. E. Grange, author of the “History of Primitive Love,’’ referred, in the course of a lecture in Boston, to the modern cynical view of love that prevails. “I well remember once,” said Professor Grange, “hearing two ordinary men, a bricklayer and a plumber, discuss love in a smoking ‘lhold,’ said the bricklayer, ‘that if you are terribly in love, the way to cure yourself is to run away. ’ The plumber shook his t head and sneered. “That will cure you,” he said, “provided you run away with the £irl. ’ *
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9074, 14 February 1908, Page 2
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93THE CYNICAL VIEW. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9074, 14 February 1908, Page 2
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