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`` I am inclined to think , however , that you are more liberal in your views than the rest of our sex . Most of them would tell me that the reason of my lack of capacity , was because I did not cultivate my faculties properly , or , in plain terms , that I was lazy . '' `` I do n't see that either , '' responded the other . `` A man works just so many hours a day , and comes home feeling that his duty is done , and lies down , if he feels inclined , or swears at the children for being noisy and troublesome , and walks off to amuse himself , leaving his tired wife at home , to go on with her work till midnight , if she ca n't get it done before . Nobody thinks of calling _ him _ anything but a poor hard working body , slaving himself to death , for the good of his family . But a woman -- just mark the difference . I suppose , though , I need not follow out that side of the picture ? ''