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"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."
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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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"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."
Marriage
"Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form."
Time
"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know."
Conversation
"The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions."
Work
"Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool."
Happiness
"To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it."
Humor
"If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain."
Man
"Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul."
Age
"Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them."
Self
"No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity."
Originality
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