"Give me a light, Betteredge.
Is it conceivable that a man can have smoked as long as I have without discovering that there is a complete system for the treatment of women at the bottom of his cigar-case?
Follow me carefully, and I will prove it in two words.

You choose a cigar, you try it, and it disappoints you.
What do you do upon that?
You throw it away and try another.

Now observe the application! You choose a woman, you try her, and she breaks your heart.

Fool! take a lesson from your cigar-case.

Throw her away, and try another!" I shook my head at that.