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"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
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"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."
"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."
"Marriage is a million piece puzzle, a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated. It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation-a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create."
"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."
"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."
"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
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"To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client."
"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."
"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."
"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."
"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."
"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
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