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"I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both."
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"I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do."
"There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them."
"Successful marriage hinges on the application of knowledge - knowing and understanding God's principles not the exchange of love.. Brother you can be in love all you want but that doesn't make the woman the right person. Same with ladues, you can be head over heels with him but that doesn't make him the right husband.In all your getting, get knowledge and understanding."
"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."
"Marriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two."
"You do not marry a woman, but you marry your imagination of her."
"Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out."
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"Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria."
"South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections."
"Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible."
"As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption."
"Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me."
"Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive."
"I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export."
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