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The Bishop Monologue from Getting Married

From Getting Married by Bernard Shaw

male · philosophical · 1:16 min

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You see, my dear, youll exhaust Sinjon's conversation too in a week or so. A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor. In the end you have to be content with his common humanity; and when you come down to that, you find out about men what a great English poet of my acquaintance used to say about women: that they all taste alike. Marry whom you please: at the end of a month he'll be Reginald over again. It wasnt worth changing: indeed it wasnt. (LEO: Then it's a mistake to get married.) It is, my dear; but it's a much bigger mistake not to get married. THE GENERAL (rising) Ha! You hear that, Lesbia? (He joins her at the garden door).

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40s · melancholy · marriage · identity · humanity · disillusionment

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