"I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both."

Catherine Helen Spence, Australian Author

Marriage, Life

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"I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both."

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Christina Engela, South African Author

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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

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"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one."

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"When you marry you marry the known and unknown man or woman."

Ikechukwu Joseph, Nigerian Motivational Speaker

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"That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage."

Jesse Helms, American Politician

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"Apparently some people (who don't know history) seem to think that marriage 'always has been' exclusively between males and females - and that this modern inequality somehow justifies the enforced continuation of this inequality."

"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."

"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."

"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."

"Husband: a former boyfriend."

"Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret."

"It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one."

"When you marry you marry the known and unknown man or woman."

"That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage."

"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."

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"Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner."

"I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family."

"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."

"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."

"The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods."

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