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"I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both."
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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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"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."
Family
"The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded."
Media
"I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times."
Age
"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."
Fire
"I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both."
Marriage
"South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections."
Community
"After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits."
Health
"My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society."
Society
"Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner."
Discovery
"A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea."
History
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