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"Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence."
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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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"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
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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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"No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes."
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"Marriage is but a consolidation of resources."
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"God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife."
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"Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength."
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"The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget."
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"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage."
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"Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement."
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"If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker."
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"Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence."
Marriage
"Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed."
Woman
"Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary."
Competition
"Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism."
Hope
"You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College."
Men
"The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more."
Information
"We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them."
Children
"We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance."
Wisdom
"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation."
Children
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