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Originally Posted by Patricia
How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes! Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us. ... They have moments of physical courage of which we women know absolutely nothing.
(Oscar Wilde, the Importance of Being Earnest, Act III. He must have been thinking of precisely this eventuality.)
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i am sure he was. he himself may have lived in constant fear that his trousers were not tight enough to protect him from mishap.