Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.