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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
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"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."
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"For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and shehim."
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"Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband."
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"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."
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"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."
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"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."
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"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."
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"I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after Ihad children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state."
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"If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish."
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"When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it."
Communication
"Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge."
Wisdom
"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."
Learning
"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
Marriage
"Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones, the difference is only in the price."
Life
"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
Self-Control
"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom."
Simplicity
"If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."
Relationship
"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him."
Work
"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals."
Reflection
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