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"Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction."
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"Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends."
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"To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a 'righteous' form of prostitution."
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"We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration."
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"Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce."
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"I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents."
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"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us."
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"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
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"A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy."
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"When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it."
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"The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind."
Body
"The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal."
Goal
"The man who runs may fight again."
Fight
"Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil."
Marriage
"Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado."
Courage
"Even God lends a hand to honest boldness."
God
"Whom the gods love dies young."
Love
"The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess."
Beginning
"'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'"
Saying
"Culture makes all men gentle."
Man
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