A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke

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An proceedings of a recent divorce trial, reading “You must choose between me and your cigar,” it’s pretty clear that Kipling was imagining the husband “responding” silently to his wife’s challenge, and was doing so tongue in cheek.

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"The Betrothed" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, it is a tongue-in-cheek work by the young bachelor Kipling, who affected a very worldly-wise stance. In it, he takes as his epigraph the report of evidence in a breach of promise case.