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"I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race."
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"Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional."
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"Just as one has no choice but to defecate, one has no choice but to get married. If your mind remains single, then there is no problem. However, one has no choice but marry if the mind is already married."
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"A young man married is a man that's marred."
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"A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are."
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"I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone."
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"Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence."
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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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"Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry."
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"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."
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"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
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"I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice."
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"In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side."
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"I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon."
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"Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges."
Education

"Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing."
Agriculture

"The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery."
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"As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers."
Power

"I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise."
Service

"I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff."
Interest

"My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one."
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