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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
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"I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage."

"Marriage is like a well - built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own."

"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 were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side."

"Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling."

"There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them."

"When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his."
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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom."

"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."

"Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house. [Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]"
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