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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 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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"Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure."
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"The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them."
Society

"I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies."
Knowledge

"Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon."
Virtue

"Loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun Although it be not shined upon."
Virtue

"In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved."
Marriage

"Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone."
Life

"The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without."
Spiritual

"Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes."
Knowledge

"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
Language

"Faith is a kind of betting or speculation."
Philosophy
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