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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
— Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
An epigram that flips expectations about remarriage. It claims a woman remarries because she disliked her first husband, while a man does so because he adored his first wife, then ends on a wordplay contrast: trying luck versus risking it.
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