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  • Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men, it is better for women, that each somewhat idealize the other. Much is lost when life has lost its atmosphere, and is reduced to naked fact.

    Mary Abigail Dodge (1872). “Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to "A New Atmosphere"”, p.281