The Ideal and the Real

The Ideal and the Real

Engraving

Fun 57-58 (1893): 7

Romeo Up to Date: — “What does it matter whether we are rich or poor, darling, so long as we have
      ‘Two souls with but a single thought,
      Two hearts that beat as one’?”

Juliet Fin de Siècle: —“Only this — that, for all that, we haven’t two mouths that eat as one”

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