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A 19th century philosopher, historian, social critic, well-known man by the name of Thomas Carlyle.

Thomas Carlyle was born into a very strict Christian family in Scotland.

As a young man who comes from a relatively poor family, really very modest family,

he fell in love with Kitty Calpatrick, who happened to be a daughter of a British official

and her mother was a princess from India.

And being the class-conscious society at the time,

Thomas Carlyle could not marry Kitty, and that broke his heart. So he married a poor girl by the name of Jane Welch.

Jane was beautiful.

She was a gracious woman.

She was a kind woman.

But for the rest of his life, Carlisle could never overcome his resentment over the fact that he had to quote unquote settle for marrying Jane.

And so he treated her unkindly to say the least. He gave her no affection. He gave her no attention and he gave her no attention, and he gave her no appreciation.

And yet Jane Kalal could not understand what's wrong with her husband.

She could not understand why he insisted on them sleeping in two separate bedrooms

and maintaining a hollow and celibate marriage.

Jane had longed for, and she yearned for, the opportunity to be appreciated by her husband.

And she dried in which every way to please him. To please this now, by that time,

he became a very famous man, but to no avail. She became depressed, chronically ill. She suffered

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