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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 husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted."
Relationship
"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."
Food
"In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued."
Practice
"Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near."
Trust
"A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet."
Relationship
"A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it."
Relationship
"Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course."
Love
"Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever."
Beauty
"Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her."
Man
"A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest."
Love
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